Latin America shows how hard it is for states dependent on oil and gas—that is, practically the whole world—to break with fossil fuel capitalism.

Kim Fortun
Kim Fortun is a professor in the University of California–Irvine’s department of anthropology. Her research has examined how people in different geographic and organizational contexts understand environmental problems, uneven distributions of environmental-health risks, developments in the environmental-health sciences, and factors that contribute to disaster vulnerability.