Original interview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10LEZUvf4niowYAvtmAwoiz1pK-MEJwFQ/view?usp=share
What I found most surprising from this interview was when they mentioned the fact that right now we are not fighting climate change in any "real" way and that these petroleum companies are more putting a nice flower on top of a heap of weeds to make it seem like they are doing something to get their emissions down. They also point out here the monetary reasons for this and the fact that politicians really make these false promises of doing something about climate change but instead do not do anything because of the money that these corporations give them to keep quiet. The reason this stuck out to me is the very recent example with President Biden where he approved the Alaska project set to change the landscape of millions of acres of untouched land in Alaska for the benefit of U.S oil companies. This fact stated by Osprey and Allen is, of course, not too surprising as I believe everyone knows that the oil companies do not really care about the environment and are not taking any serious measures to reduce their emissions(more doing things for their image), but why I was surprised by it was more because I would have thought with all these years of activism at least decent progress would have been made by now either on the oil companies initiative or the presidents demand. This leads me to be ultimately concerned at the state of our planet and as also stated by both interviewees, still little is being done and probably will be done about this fact as oil companies continue to make profits and conversely, politicians too...
One question I ultimately had by the end is "What would be your ultimate grand plan if you had one to reduce emissions? is there already a method but nobody wants to pay for it or is it being hidden?" I would have asked this question because as stated above, no effective solution has been executed as of yet to efficiently cut emissions down and as two environmental experts, I am wondering what they know on the subject and how they would tackle this problem we have very little time to solve before it is too late. The second question is more related to whether there is a solution but it has been hidden by the oil companies or politicians because it would ruin their business. I want to know what people are working on right now and what they believe is going to be the big (literal) life saver for our planet.