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Demonizing and Prosecuting Fossil Fuels Companies: Misguided and Pernicious

On a net basis, fossil fuels have abundantly blessed humankind. The producers of those fuels deserve our gratitude, not our censure or condemnation.
Demonizing and Prosecuting Fossil Fuels Companies: Misguided and Pernicious
A climate activist is detained by police after blocking a road during a protest in Helsinki, Finland on June 9, 2025. Tiago Mazza / Hans Lucas via AFP
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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One of the more lamentable aspects of the climate alarmist movement is the demonization and persecution of fossil fuel producers.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.