Is This The World's Very Last New Oil State?

In late March, the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, lectured—in his own words—the BBC's Stephen Sackur, who tried to suggest during an interview that Guyana would do better to think about protecting its environment than developing its oil resources. Ali's lecture went viral as he slammed Sackur and the West for benefiting from the advantages of oil and gas for decades and now having the hypocrisy of trying to lecture poorer countries about their own plans for using oil and gas to their advantage. Guyana's oil wealth is also,…