Where Are We Headed with Fossil Fuels?

I mentioned (ExxonMobil CEO) Rex Tillerson in an unflattering way in a recent post, based on his refusal to put an environmental scientist on his board of directors. Of course, he is not the only executive in the fossil fuel industry who proposes to ignore the vast ecological damage he’s doing and suck the last molecule of hydrocarbon out of the ground and burn it. But I can’t help wondering:

What type of a man becomes aware that half of New Delhi’s 4.4 million school children have irreversible lung damage—and recommends business as usual in the energy arena? What level of moral character does that require? Isn’t there a point at which this becomes unacceptable—even to a person like Tillerson? One would have to think so.

(The article linked above is from tomorrow’s New York Times; it’s heart-breaking.)