Fossil Fuels, Lobbying & The Real Cost of Climate Inaction: Inside the Industry w/ Patrick Galey | S04E09

🎙️ Why are we still losing the climate fight — 10 years after the Paris Agreement?

In this episode of Tangelic Talks, co-hosts Victoria Cornelio and Andres Tamez sit down with Patrick Galey — Head of Fossil Fuel Investigations at Global Witness — who leads data-driven investigations exposing how the fossil fuel industry shapes policy, influences climate negotiations, and protects its commercial interests, often in plain sight.

Patrick spent nine years as a journalist in the Middle East before switching to climate. What he found wasn't just a scientific crisis — it was a system rigged by the most profitable industry in human history. And he's spent years pulling back the curtain on exactly how that system works.

Because the arsonists are still being invited into the building. And until we stop that, emissions will keep rising.

In this episode, we cover:

🕵️ How Patrick went from Bloomberg financial journalism to fossil fuel investigations at Global Witness

🔥 Why the fossil fuel industry is the most successful — and most devious — in human history

🧪 The Exxon Knew scandal — how oil companies hid climate science for decades

🎭 How the industry shifted from outright denial to greenwashing, astroturfing & false solutions

💰 Why Shell's CEO said the quiet part loud: "Why sell renewables at $10 when I can sell gas at $80?"

🏗️ Infrastructure lock-in — how new gas pipelines and LNG terminals are being used to delay transition

📊 The $7 trillion the world spends annually subsidizing fossil fuels — and where it could go instead

⚖️ Why BP's "green reset" got blamed on going too green — and what that reveals about investor culture

🌍 COP's real problem: why the arsonists keep getting invited to the fire prevention conference

🏙️ Why cities and businesses are doing more on climate than most national governments

🗳️ The 4–5% tipping point — and why cost of living anger is being misdirected at the wrong targets

📰 How the fossil fuel industry captured political narratives — and what that means for voters

🌱 Why 70% of Reform voters in flood-prone UK regions say they care about climate change

🤝 Why the climate movement needs to stop being too nice — and learn from its opponents

🗺️ What the inaugural Fossil Fuels Phase-Out Conference in Colombia means for global climate action

🔑 The one message Patrick wants every voter to hear before the next election

🔹 About Our Guest: Patrick Galey is the Head of Fossil Fuel Investigations at Global Witness, a leading international NGO that exposes the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, and corruption. With a background in financial journalism and nearly a decade reporting from the Middle East, Patrick now leads data-driven investigations into how the fossil fuel industry shapes climate policy, lobbies governments, and slows the energy transition worldwide.

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