Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now | Peter Kalmus

Tragically, the Biden administration is choosing to expand the fossil fuel industry at this critical moment

We are spiraling further into climate and ecological breakdown. Now is the perfect moment to build out renewables and end the fossil fuel industry as if the future of humanity depends on it.

Putin's unprovoked and atrocious invasion of Ukraine has laid bare many things. One of these is our society's precarious dependence on fossil fuels. Another is a burgeoning climate-driven food crisis. It's time to phase out fossil fuels and industrial beef production with wartime resolve.

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and author based in Los Angeles