In 2024, this “Rebel Mom” was forced from her job at the Swedish Energy Agency where she had been working on a security-classified position as a gas coordinator since 2023. Her employer had suddenly considered her to be a security threat because of her climate activism.
Almost 200 land defenders and climate activists were murdered in 2024. And environmental activists are increasingly facing tougher suppression and harassment from governments in Western countries.
OPEC claimed in its annual World Oil Outlook (WOO) that there was “no peak oil on the horizon” and that phasing out oil was a “fantasy”.
In the US, natural gas for electricity production has usually outpaced renewables. But for the first time ever, renewables will clearly outpace natural gas in 2024.