The Ukraine war is no excuse for endless fossil fuel expansion | Svitlana Romanko, Bill McKibben, and Luisa Neubauer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : At the close of the hottest year in history, delegates from around the world gathered at climate talks in Dubai in December and agreed, finally, on one thing: that the time had finally come for "transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner".
58% : The obvious alternative is for countries to work together to spread renewable energy everywhere - in windy Ukraine as it is rebuilt after the war, and in the sun-drenched countries of the global south.
49% : "The move to renewables comes in part because it makes economic and climate sense (we live on a planet where the cheapest way to make power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun) and in part because everyone knows that as long as we remain dependent on fossil fuels, the countries that control those supplies have too much power.
37% : That's obvious with Putin, but why would Europe want to depend on, say, an America ruled by the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump?All of this makes clear that a new export facility permitted now, which will be built over the next five years and in service for the next 50, won't have anything to do with Ukraine or Russia or Europe.
36% : Either we're serious about transitioning off fossil fuels or we're not, and Joe Biden gets to make the call.
31% : It's the ultimate lock-in to dirty energy.
24% : And prolonging the plague of fossil fuel pollution both along the Gulf coast and in the countries where it's eventually burned - one death in five on this planet comes from breathing the combustion byproducts of fossil fuel.

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