How Corporations Kill Us (and the Planet)
Hiya,
This month I zeroed in on the obstruction and denial tactics of fossil fuel corporations. It seems that the era of flat-out climate denial is now over, and we’ve now entered into a new arena of various tactics of obfuscation and delay. This new wave of tactics trying to block needed climate action is extremely frustrating to witness. As always, you can find the video below alongside three quotes and three links I found useful along the way.
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Three Quotes:
“So there are other D-words. There’s delay. There’s division. Get climate advocates fighting with each other about, like, whether they’re vegans or not or whether they drive a car or not. Get climate advocates fighting with each other so you divide and conquer the movement. That’s division. Delay: “Oh, look, we can fix the problem with geoengineering, with carbon capture down the road. Trust us, we’ll be able to fix it.” So “let us continue to burn fossil fuels now. We will fix it later.” Delay. And that’s what they want. They want people disengaged on the sidelines rather than on the front lines.”
— James Hansen via Vox
“The investor encouraged me to notice which initiatives the fossil fuel funders were taking interest in: not in near-term technologies that could replace or knock out their product, like solar or EVs, but in longer-term ideas that will take a lot of research and capital, and give them room to keep producing as much oil as possible in the next decade. A startup that works in hydrogen or carbon capture makes sense for an oil company to invest in. Besides, fossil fuel companies have a lot of money to throw around, the investor told me, and it makes sense to diversify.”
— Drilled
“…European oil & gas and utilities sectors have coupled lobbying efforts to secure LNG infrastructure across Africa and the EU with advocacy to weaken European climate legislation, in what appears to be a multi-pronged strategy to lock-in a long-term role for fossil gas.”
— InfluenceMap
Three Links:
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities (The New Republic)
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Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie