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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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars These companies are faced with a stark choice: either they continue down their current path of extracting fossil fuels, or they face extinction. The transition to renewable energy sources is too great a leap for them to make, given their existing profit margins and business models.
This is why nationalizing energy production is the only practical way forward.
the United States military is behind the curtain. All of their equipment requires silly amounts of fuel. They are the largest producer of greenhouse gases. They won’t let the oil industry implode, and they will subsidize it as necessary. since nobody controls the military industrial complex enough to revolutionize their energy strategy in the trillions scale, nobody is driving this dumpster fire.
@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.This 3-part series from 2022 is really effective, imo. how big oil has pulled out the stops to keep us addicted to fossil fuels. Exxon features prominently (surprise surprise).
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-power-of-big-oil/
@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.@SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars projection is a tightly-coupled comorbidity of bad faith interlocutors.
@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?”
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
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Thank you for reading that (& summarizing) so I didn’t have to. I think my head would have exploded 🤯@ajsadauskas Gaslighting, sociopathic motherfucker. It’s torches-and-pitchforks time. @fuck_cars
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars A vile man spreading disinformation; he’d have a bright future in the Republican Party.
@pedrobizbikedu Why would he give up his position as puppet-master of both parties to be a puppet in just one?
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.
It’s against the rules to call the CEO of ExxonMobil a vile man?
Fuck that. I’ll say it myself. Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods is a vile piece of shit and if he weren’t actively destroying the planet with oil he’d be perfectly suited as a Republican politician given his aversion to truth.
And I agree! It’s just that the original comment sounded like they were accusing OP of spreading misinformation, not Exxon’s CEO. I will retract my earlier statement. Also, apologies to @pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world.
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.
@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.
Where are the firing squads, when we need to put the fossil fuel moguls to death?
@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas kinda like excluding tobacco companies from the directing the fight against cancer
@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.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars he’s still salty about activist ruining his little party last December
