Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions
Hey hey! Hope your week is going well. I’m back with another video and some interesting quotes/links I found along the way. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“[ExxonMobil] have used rhetoric of climate “risk” and consumer energy “demand” to construct a “Fossil Fuel Savior” (FFS) frame that downplays the reality and seriousness of climate change, normalizes fossil fuel lock-in, and individualizes responsibility. These patterns mimic the tobacco industry's documented strategy of shifting responsibility away from corporations”
— Geoffrey Supran & Naomi Oreskes
“ This overemphasis on individual action shames people for their everyday activities, things they can barely avoid doing because of the fossil fuel-dependent system they were born into. In fact, fossil fuels supply more than 75 percent of the US energy system. If we want to function in society, we have no choice but to participate in that system. To blame us for that is to shame us for our very existence.”
— Mary Annaise Heglar
“Over roughly the last three decades, five major US oil companies have spent a total of at least $3.6bn on advertisements – not counting their investments in public relations programs like sponsored beach clean-ups, or their influence through trade associations, dark money groups and campaign donations.”
— The Guardian
Three Links:
“Why Don't You Act Like You Believe It?”: Competing Visions of Climate Hypocrisy (Shane Gunster et al.)
Climate change: I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle. (Vox)
Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don’t Let Them (Rolling Stone)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie