This but sort of unironically.

Those 100 companies dig up coal, oil and gas. It’s us that apparently can’t break ourselves from it.

It’s all very well us going out and going “oh, you little poor brown people that don’t know any better: you shouldn’t be using this stuff, it’s killing the planet” when we’ve spent 150 years enriching ourselves off the back of it, and can’t even stop using it ourselves. The USA’s main export and import is still oil.

We’re completely fucked, and it’s very convenient blaming China when we’ve moved all our manufacturing there, but we were all responsible and we did precisely fuck all when it mattered. If a political party promised to stop using it all, they wouldn’t get in. We wouldn’t vote for them because we know we rely on it and costs of everything would go up in the short term.

I’m all for getting rid of fossil fuels, but I’m acutely aware that it’s just so I can breathe slightly cleaner air while the planet boils. Globally we’re still fucked.