Amid the spluttering of obnoxious news presenters, it has forced the existential threat of climate change on to the airwaves and into newsprint. With capitalism itself rightly being challenged, the focus must shift to the fossil fuel companies and the banks. Oil industry gets close to government during war The US joins the first world war and supplies allied forces with oil. API created Brought together by the war, oil executives form a trade body, the American Petroleum Institute (API) in 1919. Global warming warning API hosts renowned nuclear physicist Edward Teller at a conference at Columbia University, where he warns of impending global warming.

Source: The Guardian April 25, 2019 17:36 UTC