Bread and Circuses on Nostr: Forget Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot or Genghis Khan. Not to say those guys weren’t ...
Forget Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot or Genghis Khan. Not to say those guys weren’t bad, because they were. But the greatest crime in history — and it’s not even close — is the murderous, deceitful rampage of capitalism and the oil industry.
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“Shocker: Fossil Fuel Industry Knew of Profound Climate Risks In the 1950s”
Documents show that the fossil fuel industry had intimate involvement in the inception of modern climate science, along with its warnings of the severe harm that climate change would wreak, only to then publicly deny this science for decades and fund ongoing efforts to delay action on the climate crisis.
“They contain smoking gun proof that by at least 1954, the fossil fuel industry was on notice about the potential for its products to disrupt Earth’s climate on a scale significant to human civilization,” said Geoffrey Supran, from the University of Miami. “These findings are a startling confirmation that Big Oil has had its finger on the pulse of academic climate science for 70 years, and a reminder that it continues to do so to this day. They make a mockery of the oil industry’s denial of basic climate science decades later.”
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They have been lying to us for decades, and they will *continue* to lie. To them the only thing that matters is making MORE MONEY — even if that means destroying the planetary ecosphere we all depend upon.
Oil company executives, along with their supporters in finance and government, already are responsible for millions of human deaths, with billions more to follow in the decades ahead, along with the complete extinction of millions of plant and animal species.
They are the worst criminals in history. It’s not even close.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/desmog-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-risks-1950s-denial/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Capitalism
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“Shocker: Fossil Fuel Industry Knew of Profound Climate Risks In the 1950s”
Documents show that the fossil fuel industry had intimate involvement in the inception of modern climate science, along with its warnings of the severe harm that climate change would wreak, only to then publicly deny this science for decades and fund ongoing efforts to delay action on the climate crisis.
“They contain smoking gun proof that by at least 1954, the fossil fuel industry was on notice about the potential for its products to disrupt Earth’s climate on a scale significant to human civilization,” said Geoffrey Supran, from the University of Miami. “These findings are a startling confirmation that Big Oil has had its finger on the pulse of academic climate science for 70 years, and a reminder that it continues to do so to this day. They make a mockery of the oil industry’s denial of basic climate science decades later.”
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They have been lying to us for decades, and they will *continue* to lie. To them the only thing that matters is making MORE MONEY — even if that means destroying the planetary ecosphere we all depend upon.
Oil company executives, along with their supporters in finance and government, already are responsible for millions of human deaths, with billions more to follow in the decades ahead, along with the complete extinction of millions of plant and animal species.
They are the worst criminals in history. It’s not even close.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/desmog-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-risks-1950s-denial/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Capitalism