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Exxon knew about climate change decades ago, spent $30M to discredit it
The results of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, published Wednesday, show that Exxon scientist warned company executives decades ago about human-caused global warming. But despite its own 40-year-old research that showed that burning fossil fuels released carbon dioxide that was warming the planet to harmful levels, Exxon – the United States' largest oil company – has spent $30 million to discredit climate science to protect its carbon-based business.
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but wait, frugal me just read earlier in the article....
Society does not need to invest in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Exxon can use some of the 130 billion it makes this year. I expect at least 30 million $$ invested. tick tock.
This whole issue disgusts me, I guess the billionaires who profit figure they will be dead before it gets real bad and just fuck future generations.
Businesses exist to do one thing and one thing only: make money. They're not there to be nice, they're not there to provide jobs... they're here to line their own pockets, and whatever methods or effort rewards them the most is what they'll chose to do.
That's why it's important to always tell businesses what's not okay, whether with legislation or our wallets...and to actively incentivize them to do 'good' things. Frankly, America has been horrendous at both of those.
The problem now isn't even corporate personhood. It's that corporations are treated BETTER that people. A person who ruins thousands of lives will go to jail. A corporation that does it will be fined, at best. People will eventually die. Corporations get bailed out. People get to vote. Corporations hire lobbyists and spend billions of dollars buying politicians who then ignore their own constituents. We have to get corporations out of politics, and we have to start holding them accountable for their actions.
My suggestion? Make politician a less profitable profession. Maybe then we can elect people interested in conservation and equality. Anything would be better than what we have now.