We’ve known for decades that in order to curb the impact of perpetually rising carbon emissions, we would have to radically disrupt the machinations of global industry and change the way we live, think, and dream. We have to actually buckle down and make behavioral and systematic changes instead of hedging our bets on futuristic technological innovations that will save our butts at the last second. No small task, to be certain. And the impact of this shift on the oil sector could be severe, unless the giants of the industry begin to make some significant changes. Right up until the spread of the novel coronavirus over the past year, the simple inertia of business as usual and myopic visions of the bottom line had time and again proven themselves to be stronger than all of the world’s scientific community, environmentalists, and melting polar ice caps put together. Despite […]