Drilling in the Arctic could lock us into catastrophic climate change
Annie Leonard: Sept 1, 2015
The Arctic sits at the forefront of a rapidly destabilizing climate, and this week President Obama traveled there to highlight the urgency of our world’s climate crisis. We commend the president for his leadership, and yet this trip comes on the heels of his administration’s decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean, a move that seriously undermines his climate legacy.
Carbon pollution from companies like Shell, history’s sixth largest greenhouse gas polluter, is destroying our climate, and drilling in the Arctic could lock us into runaway climate change, catastrophic climate change really. Rapidly melting ice means previously inaccessible oil and gas is now squarely in Shell’s sights. Shell has already sunk $7 billion into oil exploration in the Arctic, a down payment to get a toehold into the region’s massive energy reserve. Shell has already called the effort a “game changer” for domestic energy production.
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