Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down

This is an extract from Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh, now available from Verso Books. A few weeks into 2023, the world’s largest oil and gas firms began to announce their end-of-year results. ExxonMobil led the way, recording a $55.7 billion profit for 2022 — the biggest in the [...]