So hard to fathom
It truly puzzles me that oil and gas company executives deny that their products are causing serious harm to our planet, spending huge amounts of money to confuse people. Don’t they care about their children and grandchildren’s future? See www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/should-we-blame-oil-companies-for-the-climate-crisis/ It’s not being suggested that we stop using it, but that there is enough being produced while we increase renewable energy supplies.
The whole planet is suffering yet still the oil and gas companies continue to mislead the public so that they can go on finding new oil fields. Still the bigger banks invest in them. Still all this activity produces higher dividends. Don’t the oil and gas companies understand that they and their loved ones can’t escape the harm? For a comprehensive explanation of the harm. en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Community_Guide_to_Environmental_Health:Every_Part_of_Oil_Production_is_Harmful
The same lack of understanding and vision is happening with increasing levels of plastic production by the oil companies, wonderful products in the right place. However, plastic is a disaster in rivers and on land in the global southern countries that have no way of disposing of the end products apart from dumping or burning. And we know that in our own country, plastic pollution is a huge problem too. Hurray for our South Leicestershire Wombles and others, who clear the danger for us and for the scientists who continue to research the physical harm the plastic particulates are doing to our health. See https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2025/01/microplastics-in-body-polluted-tiny-plastic-fragments.html
Will anything change? Thankfully lots of people are working to that end and hopefully, COP 30 in the ‘lungs of the planet’, a rainforest, will see real progress. Maybe the possibility of their own families suffering, will bring about a change of heart to the perpetrators of these injustices before it’s too late. Here’s hoping and praying!
Julie Fagan, volunteer, Sustainable Harborough Community and Eco Churches
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