How do we rein in the fossil fuel industry? Here are eight ideas

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Individual action alone won’t solve the climate crisis. So what legal and policy changes might help?

Put climate on the ballot paper Individual actions, such as flying less or buying electric cars, are helpful, but they will be futile without collective political action to slash emissions on a corporate, national and global scale. Politicians need to feel this is a priority for the electorate. That means keeping the subject high on the agenda for MPs with questions, protests, emails, social media posts, lobbying by NGOs and most of all through voting choices.

 

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It's easy. Just impoverish the population and the demand for energy would decrease.

Here's a crazy idea: start by not subsidising it.

Make ecocide a criminal offence, minimum term life in prison for oil co. execs, freeze assets a la Magnitsky act.

As long as each and every one of us creates the demand, they will want to supply. Most people and organizations don’t change until its forced upon them

No point 12 years left girl on tv said, no reversing it now.

It's definitely NOT by putting them in charge of the EPA, just an elementary guess

cdbrzezinski Is one of them rioting and destroying fossil fuel infrastructure? Because if not then the ideas are probably insufficient

FossilFuelsAreKillingUs ClimateEmergency

Live in caves and eat grass. Idiots..

I thought that was Brian's house (my mum's neighbour) he has a wood burner which he lights for 16 hours a day. 😫

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