Industry and governments need to support policies that favor people and the planet, not profits and pollution. Oil s day is over, added RAN s Shannon Wright, It is time to invest in the wealth of renewable energy. The No More Oil Campaign is demanding an end to all new exploration, starting with projects in fragile ecosystems, in areas where local communities object, and in regions where traditional indigenous people live. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are being challenged to recognize the ecological debt owed by the North to the South and to directly support renewable energy technologies in developing countries. It is simply immoral to carry on with an outmoded product such as oil.
Petroleum is poisonous for the Earth s climate and it has been the cause of so much human suffering.
The quest for more must end now.