A friend of mine was recently left in tears after filling up the car she relies on to drive to work. Thanks to the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, prices at the pumps have soared. She wasn’t sure how her family was going to make it to the next paycheck.It is a personal story and a distressing one, but the big picture is truly obscene. Fossil fuel companies are raking in monstrous, unearned war profits taken from the pockets of people like you, me, my friend, and any of us who fills up a vehicle or pays an energy bill.These, too, are the very companies and countries that have worked so hard to delay climate action and keep us all hooked on oil and gas. In short, we are paying for big oil’s outrageous profits while it cooks the planet – and our way of life along with it.The scale of the war-profits bonanza is hard to comprehend, so I’ll try to illuminate it (I promise there’s a silver lining). First, this week’s top stories.Essential reads
UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says
‘Should we leave them to die?’ The battle over how to save orangutans from the curse of palm oil
