We’ve all seen the headlines: Massive wildfires are blanketing the U.S and Canada in smoke, triggering health alerts from Minnesota to Toronto. Devastating floods in Europe have killed nearly 200 people, with hundreds more still missing. A Siberian city known as the “coldest city in the world” is now suffering through heat waves and battling wildfires. Death Valley is challenging the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet: 130 degrees.
But here’s what we hear too little about: The climate crisis is being caused by specific people, corporations, and politicians with names and faces. And they’re profiting from it.
There’s no shortage of journalism that merely bemoans rising temperatures. But until we start holding the world’s greatest climate culprits accountable, the crisis will only become more dire.
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 pseudo-science, lobbying, and campaign donations to kill any serious effort to transition away from fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, politicians — not just Republicans — still refuse to take action in the face of overwhelming evidence of the deadly consequences of inaction, while armies of lobbyists for coal, oil, and other fossil fuel interests cash in by selling lies.
Our reporters have taken on powerful corporations like Enbridge, which is currently building a tar sands pipeline through Minnesota, and discovered just how far bad actors will go to suppress resistance and protest.
We’ve covered the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income and marginalized communities. 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.
