Executives privately sought to downplay link between fossil fuels and climate change despite public pronouncements, WSJ reports
ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents revealed by the Wall Street Journal.
The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil.
Many of the newly released documents date back to the 2006-16 tenure of former chief executive Rex Tillerson, who oversaw a major shift in the company’s climate messaging. In 2006, Exxon publicly accepted that the climate crisis posed risks, and it went on to support the Paris agreement. Yet behind closed doors, the company behaved differently, the documents show.
Imagine knowingly throwing humanity under the bus to make a quick buck because you know you’ll be dead by the time the consequences come.
I don’t often find myself agreeing with cruel and unusual punishment, but if anyone deserves to suffer Hell on Earth, it’s these people. They deserve to feel the pain they’ve caused through their money-making malice.
This is why jail time for executives, large shareholders, and decision maling employees needs to be more of a thing.
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I routinely see people driving dangerously every time I leave the house. What if its not just these executives but our culture as a whole. Like they’re the symptom of a much bigger disease
The rot economy
Talking about climate change to my mother had her replying “I’ll be dead before any of that affects me”.
I never fail to remind her of that when a storm/drought/energy price hike/other climate related trouble does affect her.
Sounds like such a nice lady.
It may be true that they’ll be dead before the worst of it comes, but as you say, it’s already here. Bigger and more frequent storms; more drastic, frequent, and longer heatwaves and droughts; bigger floods; colder and colder winters. They’re all symptoms of climate change, and they aren’t going away.
It’s as though the generations after WWII forgot that they’re supposed to leave a world for the next generation to live in, not sell them out for a buck.