Clinton’s conviction that she can acquire the fossil fuel companies on board is mistaken: this can’t be solved by convincing the ultra-wealthy to do the just thingThere arent a lot of certainties left in the US presidential race,but here’s one thing about which we can be absolutely certain: the Clinton camp really doesn’t like talking about fossil-fuel money. Last week, when a young Greenpeace campaigner challenged Hillary Clinton about taking money from fossil-fuel companies, or the candidate accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “lying and declared herself “so sick” of it. As the exchange went viral,a succession of high-powered Clinton supporters pronounced that there was nothing to see here and that everyone should trot along.
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Source: theguardian.com