Dude, Where’s My Crude?

“The Yasuní National Park is home to one of the most diverse collections of plants and animals on the planet. But beneath this 3,800-square-mile swath of forest lies another kind of treasure: crude oil. More than 1 billion barrels of it. Over the past 50 years, oil companies have extracted immense amounts of crude from the Amazon, causing the destruction of rainforest crucial to slowing climate change and jeopardizing the Indigenous tribes who rely on it.” OK, who do we blame? What sickos would use oil extracted from a place we need to protect? Let me at ’em! Oh, wait. I am ’em. As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.