We’ve all seen the headlines: The hottest temperatures ever recorded in the U.K. Unprecedented flooding in Kentucky and Missouri. Ferocious, fast-growing wildfires exploding across California.
More and more media outlets are pointing to climate change as the culprit for the extreme weather we’re seeing now. But most are still unwilling to name the specific people, corporations, and politicians who caused this crisis, block action to cut emissions, and profit from the ongoing destruction of the climate.
Until we start holding the world’s greatest climate culprits accountable, we will not see the scale of change needed to prevent even more catastrophic warming. That’s why The Intercept is committed to uncovering those most responsible for causing the climate crisis. We don’t just bemoan rising temperatures; our coverage names names and doesn’t pull punches.
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We must be clear that these disasters are not random acts of God. They were caused by specific people with names and faces who knowingly cooked the planet for profit — and stopping the continued destruction of the climate requires holding them accountable.
Corporations like Exxon Mobil had evidence of global warming as early as the 1970s but proceeded to pour untold billions into climate denial pseudoscience, lobbying, and campaign donations to kill any serious effort to transition away from fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, politicians — not just Republicans — have delayed action far past the point when disastrous warming can be prevented while armies of lobbyists for coal, oil, and other fossil fuel interests cash in by selling lies.
We’ve revealed how fossil fuel lobbyists capitalized on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push for weaker environmental regulations. We’ve reported on the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income and marginalized communities.
We’ve helped push for action by uncovering the direct financial connections between fossil fuel industries and politicians like Sen. Joe Manchin. And we’re continuing to report on fossil fuel lobbying and policy fights on climate change, like a recent proposal for new subsidies to the liquid natural gas industry.
There is no more important story to cover than the climate crisis, which will impact every aspect of human life as warming escalates. And there has never been a more urgent moment to hold accountable those who caused this crisis and who continue, in the face of these deadly disasters, to profit from the destruction of the climate.
