BP Will Never Abandon Fossil Fuels, Jonathon Porritt Acknowledges

One of the most senior figures in the UK’s environmental movement of recent decades, Jonathon Porritt, recently made the statement that it is now impossible for the large fossil fuel companies of today to adapt in “a timely and intelligent way to the imperative of radical decarbonization.”

The statement, importantly, was accompanied by the announcement that his Forum for the Future institute was cutting its decades-long ties with BP and Shell — making the recent statements something more than just words, and potentially a strong example for others to follow.

In an interview with the Guardian, Jonathon Poritt put it pretty bluntly:  “These are companies whose senior managers know, as an irrefutable fact, that their current business-model threatens both the stability of the global economy and the longer-term prospects of humankind as a whole.”

Certainly true.  Given the enormous issues currently facing human civilization, of which fossil fuel use and climate change are only “one,” business as usual is more or less a death sentence for the current social and cultural order(s).

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