Fossil fuels are destroying our planet’s ability to sustain human life. The solution is obvious: We must stop investing in and producing them. Though the science around this is clear, these reforms aren’t happening for a simple reason: Multinational oil companies are powerful and greedy, and the politicians they control entirely spineless. This, in my view, is a distillation of the consensus in the non-denialist mainstream of the climate debate: that large corporations and the politicians in their pockets are clear bad actors who need to be defeated. As a narrative, it’s concise and compelling — but it leaves out the heart of the matter. In fact, corporations make money selling fossil fuel products because demand for cheap transport fuels […]