Big Oil, Corruption, Global Problems

Michael Bishop forwarded me this piece by Juan Cole that places the blame firmly where it belongs: on big oil, captured legislatures, politicians working against the people's best interests. This isn't to say that each individual person shouldn't proactively reduce their carbon footprint and be as active as possible on environmental and energy issues. It just points out that it shouldn't be this bad, and corporations have way too much power–and that it's simplistic to self-flagellate without ...