Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Hurricane Beryl —the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 storm to ever form in the Atlantic Basin—killed at least seven people as it tore through the southeastern Caribbean nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada on Monday, leaving behind devastation that the leaders of both countries compared to 'Armageddon.
'Seriously, at what point do we get crimes against humanity trials for the fossil fuel execs and economists, like Nobel winner William Nordhaus, who minimized climate impacts for decades?' climate advocate Julia Steinberger wrote on social media in response to the storm's devastation. Greenpeace International agreed.'Big Oil must be held to account for worsening extreme weather disasters,' the group wrote on social media.
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