Even as an increasing number of poor countries begin to celebrate oil finds and the prospects for economic transformation that could inhere therein, a global environmental lobby continues to move in a direction that could undermine if not shatter altogether the dreams of the oil wealth hopefuls.
Last week CNN Business reported that a group of lawyers who are backing the global environmental lobby to push back the influence of oil are calling for oil company advertisements destined for television and social media to be attended by “tobacco-style health warnings’ that explicitly address the dangers that fossil fuels pose for the future of the planet as a condition for their advertisements being accepted and used.
