Fossil fuel nationalization would see national governments take control of the fossil fuel industries within their borders to limit their use and oversee their replacement. In many countries, the fossil fuel industry is dominated by private companies who resist a clean energy transition (despite their best efforts to appear like they are doing the opposite). Nationalizing fossil fuel industries would allow governments to control fossil fuels, and encourage the adoption of clean alternatives. They would be able to plan the inevitable sunsetting of fossil-fuel industries, and a smoother societal transition to clean electrical technologies, creating a smoother path for millions of fossil fuel industry workers. Governments could, for example, set prices in ways that aid the green transition, using any final profits that would have gone to the fossil fuel companies (and their harmful projects) to invest in alternative technologies such as renewables and storage, and decommission stranded fossil-energy infrastructure.

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• A Moderate Proposal: Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry (New Republic)

• Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet (The American Prospect)

• Join, or spend some time with, or support an organization or local group that is pushing for the nationalization of fossil fuel industries.

• Talk about fossil fuel nationalization to your friends and family. 

• Contact your political representatives to ask them to explore the idea of nationalizing fossil fuel industries.

• Support laws that redistribute fossil fuel profits to people most harmed by fossil fuel industries.