Fatih Birol interview: ‘Leave oil before it leaves us’

There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals, market solutions and non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse.

In this Frankly, Nate revisits some key messages from this channel and delves into some of the more challenging takeaways.

As John Gray has written, utopian visions, whether fascism, communism, globalism or the Singularity, invariably promise “dreams of collective deliverance.” But in waking life, they “are found to be nightmares.”