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    It’s true, the fact that we never drew and quartered this guy does seem like a failure of our responsibilities

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      This but unironically. It’s like these fucks are begging us to just start storming headquarters at this point. Taunting us.

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        They know they can run and hide from us longer than we can actually try to hunt them down. The cops, lawyers, judges and yachts will protect them

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          Gotta wait for the clusterfuck they’ve brought down on us to affect their servants. Think drivers, chefs, bodyguards watching their families drown in flood waters or starve/dehydrate to death.

          Would you spend your life protecting the assholes who killed everyone you love?

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    It IS our fault! If we were TRULY responsible people he would have already met the GUILOTINE!

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    IT WAS ALL THOSE DAMN AVOCADOS, WHY DIDN’T WE JUST SIMPLY STOP EATING THOSE AVOCADOS

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    man who gets rich pumping oil out of ground blames everyone else for using it while offering no alternatives

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      Id actually be more forgiving if that was all they did. Except that wasnt enough, so they created a huge disinformation campaign and actively lobbied against meaningful change.

      They have divided their opposition so effectively that we are at the point where levers on our life support systems are being pushed and pulled while our most informed scientists dont know where or when the next catastrophic shift occurs.

      Buckle up, its gonna be an eventful 1000yrs

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      This is Exxon we’re talking about here, they killed their research into biofuels and hid their research on climate change in the 70s because of the oil crisis.

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    In a functioning society these fucks would have been sued into bankruptcy for suppressing those studies in the 80s. In our society they can continue to make record profits every year

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      80s? They knew in the 50s. They might even know before. With these liars, you never know.

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      Welcome to the world of regulation capture capitalism.

      There’s only one way out of this and its going to suck for everyone until we clean the filth that has corrupted our economy and government.

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      Except for one thing. Unless that society is also a lot different than ours, it would still require the product these companies produce to survive. So maybe a much stronger slap of the hand, but it wouldn’t eliminate them.

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        We also require food and water and shelter and healthcare to survive, that doesn’t justify their commodification for profit, if anything it’s the best and foremost reason for those resources to be free for all. Just like the need for an energy source doesn’t justify anything the oil companies have done, which includes making sure every alternative to their product nonviable, or at least significantly more expensive to buy (though not to make!) so that people continue to buy their product that they have known for decades is destroying the planet.

        The idea that they can’t be eliminated is one they have planted in your mind, not reality.

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    I am not at all defending anything in the article, and especially the oil industry.

    I hope some people read the article because I found it very interesting and a little challenging to my preconceived ideas. For example I read the first paragraph and my instant reaction was "straight to hell. Do no pass go. Do not collect $200) "

    that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating.

    But then it said some things such as their scientists had reported data predicting climate change in the 70s and 80s and in some cases had even more data than government programs. (I skimmed the article this one sourced) and how this current ceo is basically dancing thr tightrope of being an advocate for clean energy while working to the enemy and trying not to completely neuter them. and frankly, not that I believe this is the case at all but makes me laugh, a lot of what is quoted in the article sounds like an undercover plant trying to minimize harm cuz you can’t do it all at once.

    But yeah in reality fuck that. If you have the capacity to understand climate change and the gravity of the consequences, then literally nothing else should matter besides that short of ensuring your employees quality of life is good

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      Well yeah, it’s a PR move. Especially because they did their own studies on climate change and learned they would fuck up the planet and then laughed and said “well if we don’t do it, someone else will”

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        Pretty much this. GM’s EV1 is a very interesting case. While it’s easy to understand why they wouldn’t want to produce it in significant numbers due to economic constraints (very high manufacturing price), their decision to recall all vehicles to destroy them was stupid beyond all reason.

        Also, according to wikipedia’s sources, ChevronTexaco, a fucking oil company, held a patent for a NiMH battery and made sure no one made any plug-in (battery only) car using it.

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        Oh for sure. I guess I just see this CEO a little more unique than most capitalist villains. It’s almost comical to me, I feel like he is trying to convince himself he isn’t a bad guy more than anything. Like it all stems from that. But it’s not funny because there are real consequences

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      They buried the study for decades. If they actually gave a shit, oil execs could have injected billions into renewable energy R&D and made money hand over fist on selling the resulting tech, but it’s easier to burn the planet down so they didn’t. Oh, not to mention actively screwing renewable projects by buying people in congress. Fuck em all.

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    I agree, it’s not yet legal to shoot Exxon CEOs and executives on sight. Maybe we should take their example and consider the legal world more malleable than we do.