The negative impact of population growth is becoming appolling.

The negative impact of population growth is becoming appallingly evident.

Airs to an oil fortune join the divestment drive.

In a highly symbolic gesture, the Rockefeller family will sell off its assets linked to fossil fuel companies.

A slump in global oil prices has Saudi Arabia rethinking its near total dependence on oil revenue.

We should be focusing on it and we should be curbing our you know

appetite for carbon-intensive products and services but the problem is it's got a lot

of room for debate. Obviously the Rockefeller are making this move as an

environmental one but also from an investment standpoint

this also makes plenty of business sense.

You can't simply carry on business the way you're doing it now.

There is a price to carbon in their future.

What do you see is the biggest challenges in conservation?

The growing human population. At the dawn of the 20th century, a new international order was emerging, one founded on oil.

And by the end of the 20th century,

that order was firmly established.

Heating, transportation, industrial power, plastic manufacturing, pharmaceuticals.

There is no facet of modern life that is not, one way or another, dependent on oil.

But the rulers of this oeligarki, the Rockefeller's at standard oil, the British

Royals of BP, the Dutch Royals and the Rothschilds at Royal Dutch Shell were not content with mere financial domination.

The power that came with their near total monopoly on the world's most important commodity was enormous,

and they had no qualms about using that power

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