{"id":918,"date":"2009-07-11T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2009-07-11T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T11:55:26","slug":"energy-shown-to-be-the-most-important-issue-in-worlds-biggest-company-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/energy-shown-to-be-the-most-important-issue-in-worlds-biggest-company-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy shown to be the most important issue in world&#8217;s biggest company ranking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest annual <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/global500\/2009\/full_list\/\">survey of the largest companies by Fortune magazine<\/a> confirms the dominance of oil companies, with 7 in the top 10, despite the steep drop in crude prices in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t surprising because we realise the unnatural dependence on oil that humanity has nurtured over the past century.\u00a0 It would not be so worrying if these companies were producing energy from alternative sources, that is low carbon sources.\u00a0 But they are not.\u00a0 The ranking reinforces the message that humanity is consuming buried sunlight\u00a0 in a suicidal way.<\/p>\n<p>The company revenue ranking by Fortune also shows significant changes in US corporate strength because of the economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/8142515.stm\">Shell beats Wal-Mart as top firm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest annual survey of the largest companies by Fortune magazine confirms the dominance of oil companies, with 7 in the top 10, despite the steep drop in crude prices in the past year. This isn&#8217;t surprising because we realise the unnatural dependence on oil that humanity has nurtured over the past century.\u00a0 It would &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/energy-shown-to-be-the-most-important-issue-in-worlds-biggest-company-ranking\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Energy shown to be the most important issue in world&#8217;s biggest company ranking.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-markets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-eO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}