Academics, having plenty of time on their hands are stitching together a new woke narrative, that sees fossil fuels as, well, fuelling the white male patriarchal racist, misogynist, sexist blah, blah, system. The image I have is of a red neck cruising in a gas guzzler, shotgun in a rack, arm out the window, making a nuisance himself.
Yet, the problem these woke academics have, is that the vast majority of Africans, Chinese, other East Asians, and in fact, most of South East Asian and South America, support fossil fuel use. Non-whites support fossil fuels. In fact, these societies embrace, with no shame, petro-masculinity. So, there is a problem here for the while liberal woke academics, since, the Left-blessed races, those who are non-white, fit the same depiction, made of the dreaded white males. So, what is an academic to do? Probably ignore it. Or say, no, it is the white racist West which has turned these golden people from the true path. Yes, that might be it.