As the extreme wet events following extreme droughts scar the land permanently and interrupt agricultural calendars around the world, let’s not forget who is responsible for this, the fucking oil companies!
NZ students ask for oil company execs to be declared criminals
Kiwi law students are fighting for BP senior executives to be investigated and tried in the International Criminal Court.
It’s one of the first cases targeting the people leading a fossil fuel organisation, rather than the company itself.
Senior leaders of the fossil fuel industry know their products cause global damage, injury and death, yet create “doubt, dependency [and] delay”, the British and Kiwi students argue.
For the suit to be successful, the global prosecutors’ office would need to open an investigation into the oil executives’ conduct.
This follows the leadership of Mike Smith taking the exact same action at the International Criminal Court…
Iwi leader Mike Smith takes OMV oil boss to International Criminal Court
Māori leader Mike Smith has shot the first arrow in a global war between indigenous communities and oil companies.
Smith has started legal proceedings in the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Rainer Seele, the CEO of Austrian oil giant OMV.
He said oil company executives deserved to stand trial for genocide and other climate crimes impacting on indigenous communities now and in the future.
Once again it is Indigenous peoples and young people who are leading the war on climate change.
Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions that are causing the climate crisis, and big oil KNEW in the 1990s that they were creating catastrophic climate change.
The comparisons between how Big Tobacco lied and manipulated the science linking smoking to cancer is as audacious as Big Oil has lied and manipulated the science linking CO2 to global warming.
We should be collectively suing Big Oil now and using the payouts to fund the urgent Green transition away from fossil fuels.
t is outrageous that our Government has not led this fight and instead capitulate to the polluters rather than challenge them. Indigenous people have been at the forefront of the climate crisis battle and have been the frontline between corporate polluting greed and sustainable habitats.
You can see why the State illegally spied on Māori Iwi fighting big oil in this country.
Thank God for Māori and youth leadership on this crucial issue.
Again.
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If you are going to roll out mass electrification, this requires an exponential increase in mining output. For certain metals, we aren’t even sure where to find adequate reserves to meet demand.
That will require cheap energy to get the mines started up. In the short term, that will mean you need cheap oil (and coal).
If you sue the oil companies out of existence, someone will still need to be doing the pumping and exploring.
It could work if you restarted the State Mines, State Refineries and the Synthetic Fuel Corporation, and started purchasing from foreign state firms who sell oil.
The key is that supply needs to keep growing. If all you did was bankrupt a lot of oil companies, supply would fall, and your project would be doomed.
Without oil we would be walking or riding through a mountain of horse shit .Oil and it’s derivatives are an integral part of modern society. It is worth noting there is a danger of no beer due to the closing of Marsden Point oil refinery . It is like blaming tobacco firms for the death they cause but no one is forced to smoke it comes down to personnal choice . Are car makers responsible for the vehicle crashes or is it bad driving .
It would be interesting to see how popular a party was that promoted a no oil world. ?
Village life in the Cotswolds, Trev? Yorkshire Dales ? Climbing mountain passes, walking woods where squirrels hide their nuts in grass? Seems to me we’ve managed without oil in times past, and times that produced and enabled giants in every imaginable field and endeavour. Printing presses will survive, and the weavers and spinners and blacksmiths will provide a ballast that few modern politicos could.
All I see here is virtue signalling and blame apportionment. Show me the person who doesn’t use the products of fossil fuels (which makes us all complicit). If you want to cure any issues find another way to do things that actually works.
“Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions that are causing the climate crisis, ”
That is misleading – 100 Fossil fuel PRODUCERS. They extract the liquid sunlight, WE buy and consume it in an innumerable number of ways.
“Once again it is Indigenous peoples and young people…”
Hasn’t the “”young people” environmental faction cancelled itself for being too White – at least in Auckland? I’m sure the ones that haven’t self immolated yet are paralyzed by internal Woke witch hunts and Oppression Olympics competitiveness.
All this reminds me of bumper sticker I saw in Gernany in the eighties. Translated for the benefit of monolingual readers:
“Why build power plants? In our home All electricity comes from the socket in the wall!”
So where do lubricants and plastics come from? Is it back to whale oil again?
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