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Just like when dealing with the losing side of a war we need to have a serious debate into implementing an exit strategy for Oil&Gas companies.

We have plenty of technical solutions, but they will all continue to face an enormous amount of friction due to Oil&Gas profits/lobby.

We need a political solution and we need to have an honest debate on how to sunset a trillion dollar industry without them putting up a fight.

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Not just Oil & Gas companies - but oil and gas nations. There's quite a few geopolitically important countries that either derive a large proportion of their GDP / foreign exchange from hydrocarbons, or rely on them so heavily there's no practical path for transition by 2050.

Compared to the difficulty in getting these nations to play a full and productive part in any transition (requiring essentially restructuring a large chunk of their economies), settling up with extractor companies will be a walk in the park.

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