You can't hide pollution

For decades, fossil fuel companies have shaped the public’s perception of their business, concealing the true environmental and social costs.

Today, the fossil fuel industry continues to use its power and influence to slow down essential climate action and the inevitable switch to renewable energy — all while making life more expensive by driving up inflation, energy bills and gas prices.

Although we don’t have the same advertising budget or powerful lobbyists, we believe in the strength in numbers of concerned individuals, families and communities.

Together, we can call out this industry’s practices and push for change.

“We need to fight against the fossil fuel era and an industry that is not going to go down lightly.” – Severn Cullis-Suzuki

It’s worth repeating: Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to the climate crisis. Most of the harmful greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are from burning coal, oil and gas. This has caused global heating, with record-breaking temperatures and destructive extreme weather events.

The harmful effects of fossil fuels are wide-ranging: air pollution, oil spills, deforestation, contaminated water, destruction of wildlife and habitat, pollution-caused disease and death and more. We’re already seeing more wildfires, heat domes, droughts, floods, health impacts, migrant crises, water shortages, species extinctions and other consequences of wastefully burning fossil fuels.

The world’s leading scientists and energy agencies have recommended again and again that we must end our reliance on fossil fuels. So why don’t we?

The truth about fossil fuels

 

The fossil fuel industry engages in a variety of tactics to mislead the public and stall meaningful change, spending enormous amounts of money on these deceptive practices.

The fossil fuel industry has known as early as the 1950s that its operations would have devastating effects on the planet, but made the decision to lie to the public and cover up evidence — sowing doubt about climate science and convincing people that fossil fuels are here to stay.

Today, we continue to see evidence of the industry’s tactics to delay meaningful climate action. Misleading advertising and PR campaigns and social media, overrepresentation at international negotiations including the COP climate conferences, funding misleading climate studies, touting (and requesting public funds for) ineffective carbon capture and storage technologies and ramping up plastic production as a Plan B.

“Fossil fuel funding is an investment in disaster.” – David Suzuki