Move away from fossil fuels, leave the the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole, leave the tar sands in the land

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 17, in Durban, NNIMMO BASSEY said that:
One of the biggest challenge to finding a solution to global warming is the overpowering control of politicians by transnational corporations. Nigeria has Shell officials on its official delegation to the conference? We need to decolonize our governments. We are holding—we’re believing that the solution will come by peoples from the outside of these conference halls. We have to change the entire paradigm, because right now, I mean, it’s been right to call this a conference of polluters, a conference of hypocrites, a conference of people who are not listening to voices, the democratic voices of people on the streets.
So we need to look at the fundamental cause of global warming, move away from fossil fuels, leave the the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole, leave the tar sands in the land. As long as the world continues to be addicted and hooked on the fossil fuel-driven civilization, there’s not going to be any solution. So we need to shift to renewable energy. We need to shift to community, discrete, small-scale control energy forms, and not on mega grids, mega dams and all other dirty forms of energy production.