"The #WorldBank on Thursday reached a conclusion that progressives have been shouting from the rooftops for decades: If governments redirected the trillions of dollars they spend annually to prop up fossil fuels…humanity would be in a much better position to address the #climate crisis."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/world-bank-urges-redirection-harmful-fossil-fuel-subsidies
BTW, "trillions" is no exaggeration.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds
Why is it so hard for influential orgs to say that #oil and #coal #subsidies are part of the problem?