If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.
So.
The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: “We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions.”
https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
Who’s the most influential voice on climate change? Who’s to blame for inaction on climate change?
According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it’s environmental activists.
No, really:
“Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies.”
Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:
“Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that.”
Gets better.
He thinks unnamed ‘people who generate emissions’ should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)
“People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem.”
https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.
Not gross revenue.
Profit.
So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?
“Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue… This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?
"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…
“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.”
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- lucie digitální ( @luciedigitalni@aus.social ) 9•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars guillotine time
- owen ( @owen@lemmy.ca ) 4•4 months ago
Gun violence time comrade
- Stanley Nerdlinger ( @SNerd@lor.sh ) 7•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
It was said years ago, when climate change becomes undeniable, the deniers will blame the environmentalists. And that was a prediction not a joke.- fluids_guru ( @fluids_guru@kolektiva.social ) 7•4 months ago
@SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Colleague of mine has always felt when the true impacts arrive, scientists will be blamed. “Why didn’t you tell us it would be this bad?”
- eena meena me ( @meena@glitch.social ) 1•4 months ago
@fluids_guru @SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars the problem is that what scientist think of as conservative, and what politicians think of as conservative does not mash in this particular scenario.
the whole institution of science has been put into a corner where it’s not their job to speak up, and if individual scientists do, this can have dramatic repercussions for their career. you’d need the entirety of climate science standing behind those crazy “activists” (scientists who are speaking out)
- Wade Roberts ( @waderoberts@aus.social ) 2•4 months ago
@SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars projection is a tightly-coupled comorbidity of bad faith interlocutors.
- A Tattered Scrapbook ( @Tattered@mastodon.social ) 7•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars He’s the CEO of Exxon! We know he’s an evil lying shit before he opens his mouth. Everything else is just embellishment.
- CelloMom On Cars ( @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social ) 6•4 months ago
Concerned about climate change?
You need to read @ajsadauskas 's 👆🏼 post (and some of the replies).Besides denial, gaslighting (shoving responsibility on you), and greenwashing, the fossil fuel industry push to label climate activists as criminals.
Don’t believe it?
They’ve been doing this for a while now, organised by such “institutions” as the Atlas network and ALEC.https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters
- P Regina ( @pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world ) 5•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars A vile man spreading disinformation; he’d have a bright future in the Republican Party.
- onlooker ( @onlooker@lemmy.ml ) 3•4 months ago
If you found information that is false, you could have pointed it out and corrected it. Instead you just accused them of spreading disinformation - wherever in the post that might be - without elaborating further and called them vile. Which, I might add, is against the rules.Someone would indeed have a bright future in the Republican Party, but it’s not OP.EDIT: I withdraw the above statement. I was under the impression that the commenter was accusing OP of disinformation.
- Fugue State Audio ( @fstateaudio@mastodon.sdf.org ) 1•4 months ago
@pedrobizbikedu Why would he give up his position as puppet-master of both parties to be a puppet in just one?
- P Regina ( @pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world ) 1•4 months ago
@fstateaudio @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Indeed.
- Steven Zekowski ( @steve_zeke@freeradical.zone ) 4•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Thank you for reading that (& summarizing) so I didn’t have to. I think my head would have exploded 🤯 - onlooker ( @onlooker@lemmy.ml ) 4•4 months ago
The article was paywalled for me, so here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240228154718/https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
The pictures are blurred out, but then again you’re better off not looking at this lying bastard’s face.
- Sean :nivenly: 🦬 ( @witch_of_winter@hachyderm.io ) 3•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I agree with him people generating emissions should pay for it. Now let’s see how many tons of CO2 does Exxon produce, from drilling oil, transporting crude, refining it, transporting it onwards to its final destination…
- Baahb ( @Baahb@feddit.nl ) 3•4 months ago
I mean, it’s not like he’s not aware that every word coming out of his mouth is a lie…
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Where have we heard this before?Look what you made me do!
God damn I’m glad the coppers will defend me you bitch.- Voron ( @voron@mstdn.party ) 2•4 months ago
@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas kinda like excluding tobacco companies from the directing the fight against cancer
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months ago
These are the kind of people we need the international court of justice for.
- klausfiend ( @klausfiend@dcerberus.com ) 2•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Oh JFC, die in a fire, ExxonMobil. Preferrably one that resists conventional suppression techniques.
- Andrew Hunter ( @rexbron@mstdn.ca ) 2•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Nothing we can do about it now, says company that actively campaigned to do nothing.
- Tom Ritchford ( @TomSwirly@toot.community ) 2•4 months ago
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars What penalty is appropriate for someone who dooms all of our descendants to a destroyed ecosystem, and then blames the very people who tried desperately to stop him for his own crimes?
Until truly, truly terrible things happen to these people, they will continue to escalate their attacks on all of our grandchildren, while mocking us, like they are doing in this quote.
- Lats (314 ppm) ( @Lats@aus.social ) 1•4 months ago
@TomSwirly @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars a lot of people are experiential, if it didn’t happen to them then they can’t relate to it. It isn’t real. If some of these people got caught in a bushfire and then got flooded and had their boat sunk by a cyclone, they may get it. Till then….
- Brian Dear ( @brianstorms@mastodon.social ) 1•4 months ago
Just remember, “Net Zero” is properly pronounced as “not zero” and should always be accompanied by a nudge, wink, and sh*t-eating grin.