New EU climate chief: ‘The sooner fossil fuels become history, the better’::Former Shell man Wopke Hoekstra stressed the importance of phasing out fossil fuels and its subsidies
*Candidate climate chief, he isn’t elected yet. I’m really hoping Wopke doesn’t get the position, because his nomination is nothing else than a ploy to weaken climate ambitions in the EU
Edit: Welp, he did it, he made it through the commision
There’s still the European Parliament. But yeah I guess he gets the job…
Empty words…
Any bureaucrat or politicians who was driven to do what needed to be done would have to risk their career and life at this point. The amount of fundamental systematic changes needed to be done would make too enemies. Also you can’t just say fuck it and collapse society, by going cold turkey in a few years. It needs plans and long term thinking something that is impossible when for politicians is like six years max time in office and of which the latter half needs to be in practice lived elections in mind.
I am starting to think there is a reason Dinos were removed from the world.
Technically id say fossil fuels are history, history that has decayed and formed a hydrocarbon.
