Texas Intends to Burn the Planet Down

No matter how many countries make climate emergency declarations it’s in places like Texas that the future of our planet will be determined. And, considering the plans being made in Texas both by the state’s government and the fossil fuel industry, our planet doesn’t have a chance.

The scale of new production is “staggering”, according to an analysis by Global Witness, a campaign group, with Texas leading the way as US output of oil and gas is forecast to rise by 25% over the next decade. This makes it a “looming carbon timebomb”, the group believes, in a period when global oil and gas production needs to drop by 40% to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

“The sheer scale of this new production dwarfs that of every other country in the world and would spell disaster for the world’s ambitions to curb climate change,” the report states.