John -
I need to tell you some bad news about the fossil fuel industry that will enrage you, and then I hope you'll join me and channel what you're feeling about this news to help save our climate.
Here's the bad news:
The CEO of giant oil company Shell announced that they are making huge profits off of Russia's war in Ukraine. Record profits, in fact: Shell made $9.1 BILLION in the first three months of the year.1
Every single dollar that Shell makes puts our climate movement at a bigger disadvantage in the fight to transition to one hundred percent renewables. As they grow their profits, our planet and our communities pay the price.
John, I don't want you to despair. I want to ask you to do something about it.
It's bad enough that Shell is profiting while Russia kills Ukrainian civilians, but Shell has BIG PLANS to spend this new windfall of cash.
In fact, the dozen biggest oil companies are on track to spend $103,000,000 every day for the rest of the decade — that means they've already made their final financial commitment to projects that will deliver 116 billion barrels of oil.
If the fossil fuel industry's existing projects are allowed to go forward, it would produce enough carbon dioxide emissions to produce a "carbon bomb" that will destroy our chances of saving the planet.2
So we aren't going to let that happen.
Campaigners at 350.org around the world are working to stop Shell from opening more oil fields in our oceans. We are fighting to stop the fossil fuel industry and reverse the worst effects of the climate crisis. And we know that a people-powered climate movement is the best chance to win against the fossil fuel industry.
Thank you for all you do,
Monica Hollander
Finance Director
350.org
Shell announced that, thanks to Russia's war in Ukraine, it made $9,100,000,000 in profits in the first three months of the year. This is just wrong.
The way that we can counter the fossil fuel industry is by organized people power.
Can you chip in $3.50 to power our climate campaigning and take on the fossil fuel industry?
1 - The New York Times
2 - The Guardian
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