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The Morality of Fossil Fuels
Guyana currently acts as a carbon sink, absorbing far more CO2 than it emits. Jankie says that instead of embracing fossil fuel development Guyana could sell carbon sink services to the rest of the world and use that money to transition to cleaner sources of energy. She worries that the country's embrace of oil will destroy its natural capital and leave it behind in the global push toward energy transition.