"... 19th-century textile workers fiercely resisted being replaced by spinning machines.
"While those workers angrily smashed the machines, the world moved on to a prosperous new era of large-scale factory production, enabling the public to enjoy brightly coloured cotton calicoes and a popular social event known as the calico ball.
"The workers, dubbed Luddites, paid a heavy price for their resistance. They were executed for destroying the machines, and have been ridiculed throughout history.
"By contrast, the Luddites running Big Oil are enjoying the biggest bonanza in history, even as they block the saving of the planet — a more grievous offence, by any reckoning, than denying the world the benefits of the spinning machine or even the calico ball."
Full article: Fight against climate change blocked by Luddites at Big Oil.
