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The $10 Trillion "Ask": Chris Hayes Wins May Sidney Award for "The New Abolitionism"

We at the Hillman Foundation are very proud to announce that Chris Hayes has won the May Sidney Award for “The New Abolitionism,” a provocative feature in The Nation in which he argues that fossil fuel companies must forfeit $10 trillion in unburned oil and gas reserves in order to avert civilization-destroying climate change, a demand he says is no less urgent, and no less radical than the abolitionist ultimatum that slaveholders give up the vast wealth they held in human bondage.

Read Lindsay Beyerstein’s Backstory interview with Hayes to learn more about the stakes of this debate and the innovative tactics that could bring the likes of Exxon Mobil to heel.