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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to increase its spending on renewable energy to $1bn (£800m) a year, its chief executive announced as he warned the public’s faith in the industry was “just disappearing”.
Ben van Beurden suggested the public backlash against fossil fuel firms could threaten the industry’s future.
He also said it was essential that countries imposed a price on carbon emissions to help phase out the use of coal and oil, sources of large amounts of greenhouse gases that are driving climate change.
That's pretty nutty.
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May sound nutty in Alberta. Or even North America. But the public in the UK and Europe (where Shell is based) loathe the oil industry, and believe the end of civilization as we know it is imminent because of global warming.