“We have entered a new reality where fossil fuel companies have lost their legitimacy and social license to operate.”

—  Mary Robinson

The Elders Chair Mary Robinson Uses UN Press Conference to Denounce President Trump, Canada Free Press, Joseph A. Klein (13 June 2019)

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