How to get Big Oil to end the climate crisis | Mark van Baal | TEDxEindhoven

Speaking at a TEDx event, Follow This founder Mark van Baal explained how ordinary citizens can compel Big Oil to invest in renewables.
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To end the climate crisis, we need to make sure that fossil fuel companies stop drilling for even more oil and gas and start investing heavily in renewable energy.

This talk is about changing what cannot be changed at first sight, and will convince you that we ordinary citizens can have an influence on the course of Shell and other oil majors. We are only powerless when we accept being powerless.

 

 

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