“More than half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 can be linked to just 36 fossil fuel and cement producers, according to a report from the Carbon Majors database. “The top five state-owned emitters — Saudi Aramco, Coal India, CHN Energy, National Iranian Oil Company and Jinneng Group — accounted for nearly a fifth of all global emissions in 2023. “The top five investor-owned emitters — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies and BP — made up 5 per cent of emissions. “The report’s findings are based on a database that traces the emissions from production and combustion of products from 180 of the largest oil, gas, coal and cement producers from 1854 to 2023.” Source: the Financial Times
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51