The world's oil and gas companies are still making a profit and still planning to increase their extraction to make more profit.

When they talk about "going green", it is part distraction (look at the wind farms we are building and ignore all the CO2 our oil generates, look at our reduction in emissions from our own operations and ignore the emissions when customers burn our product), and part co-optation (when Shell buys a solar energy company that doesn't necessarily increase solar energy investment). All designed to let them keep increasing the problem.

They want us to give them subsidies for green energy systems even bigger than the the subsidies they get for extracting oil and gas. Then they would make the transition, but slowly.

They would be quite capable of putting earnest efforts into a transition to green energy, if we eliminate the subsidies for gas and oil and replace them with a carbon tax.