Writer #KateWagner may have seemed like an odd choice to cover the luxury world of FormulaOne. …FormulaOne races…have become pit stops on the jet-set circuit, where the cheapest general-admission tickets start around $500. Still, #RoadAndTrack mag commissioned Wagner to cover a FormulaOne race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals co INEOS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/
The author [#KateWagner] criticized the general state of #FormulaOne, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen. Wagner also mocked her hosts at #INEOS, describing its invitation to her as a bid to gain positive #publicity & #whitewash the company’s image. “The #petrochemical companies, deeply #powerful institutions, need #journalists to write about all the things they attach themselves to that are not being a petrochemical company,”she wrote. #F1
The current monstrous heatwave frying the US southwest and south is Heatwave Chevron according to former Weather Channel meterologist Guy Walton, who says we should call scorching heatwaves after the giants of the petrochemical industry to name and shame them. Since they've walked us into this mess knowing full well what was ahead.
Threat to the 40,000 year-old rock art sites at #Murujaga National Park, W Australia from #petrochemical industry emissions. This is 'the most important rock art site in the world' says Michel #Lorblanchet