On July 9th on the Senate floor, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered his 300th speech urging congress to wake up to the threat of climate change and break the fossil fuel industrys stranglehold on the US federal government.

Oleh Savytskyi, distinguished climate and energy policy expert, articulates the global dimensions of Whitehouses speech from his vantage point as a Ukrainian climate activist and resident of Kyiv, being subjected to nightly Russian drone and missile attacks. He discusses how global fossil fuel industries lead to imperialism and what is successfully being done to counteract this.

Savytskyi is strategic advisor to Razom We Stand, a Ukrainian campaign to end fossil fuel dependency, Russial fossil fuel sales, and to promote green energy. 

Public Domain Image of Russian Oil Refinery from Picryl