Marco Grasso
From Big Oil to Big Green
Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis
MIT Press, 2022
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Big Oil’s activities are threatening life on Earth, says Marco Grasso, and it’s time for the industry to take accountability and embrace its evolution.
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Big Oil must step up and take responsibility for the climate crisis threatening life on Earth today, argues political geography professor Marco Grasso. He urges the oil and gas industry to embrace decarbonization and make reparations, while making a moral case for climate justice. Grasso critiques Big Oil for denying the correlation between fossil fuels and climate change while it knowingly caused harm and garnered trillions in profits. It’s time to label fossil fuels a “harmful product,” such as tobacco or asbestos, he says, while urging Big Oil to embrace green energy.
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About the Author
Political geography professor with the University of Milano-Bicocca’s Department of Sociology and Social Research Marco Grasso is the global environment outlook expert (GEO) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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