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Image: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty ImagesImage: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty Images

'Big Oil' and the climate crisis

Burning oil and gas emits the CO2 heating up our planet. They're also used to produce the plastic choking Earth.