The bad math of the fossil fuel industry | Tzeporah Berman

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry continues to expand oil, gas and coal production and exploration. With searing passion and unflinching nerve, Berman reveals the delusions keeping true progress from being made -- and offers a realistic path forward: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Learn more about the global initiative for transparency and accountability in phasing out fossil fuels forever, supported by the Dalai Lama, Nobel Prize laureates and many more.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	Three products contribute to the majority of emissions trapped in our atmosphere, driving
0:11.5	us toward climate catastrophe.
0:13.7	They are oil, gas, and coal.
0:17.0	And those fossil fuel industries are still increasing production.
0:20.3	In her archive talk from the Ted Countdown Summit in 2021, climate campaigners Zipora
0:25.6	Burman reveals why trends are still going in the wrong direction, and what can be done
0:30.0	about it after the break.
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