Those pricks knew all along and lied to us!
Exxon Mobil scientists accurately predicted warming since 1970s
Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ conclusions, a new study says.
They knew climate change was real, they knew their product exacerbated climate change and they lied through their teeth and funded astroturf organisations to muddy the science in the public mind, just like the Tobacco industry did when they found out smoking causes cancer.
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, but we now learn they knew 2 decades earlier than that!
Big Oil are economic vandals and are committing an unprecedented Omnicide of environmental genocide.
We must take these vile creatures to Court with the same passion we took Tobacco companies to Court and use the vast damages we will sue them for to fund the rapid adaptation we need to invest immediately in.
There is no time left, the agricultural calendar will be endlessly disrupted from here no matter what National and ACT say.
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.
Global warming is no longer a scientific debate because the Science has been settled, it is now a culture war between those who hate that the Green Left are right (plus those corporate interests who profit from the pollution) vs the rest of us.
Radical adaptation of the economy and system is required.
Look how in NZ the Corporate Quisling Farmers run NZ politics so much so that the merest hint of them being forced to pay for their own pollution is met with howls of persecution!
Farmers are 1.16% of the population, represent 5.5% of GDP, make 48% of greenhouse gas emissions and create 70% of NZ’s contribution to global warming yet they are able to run roughshod over any legislative reigning in because the have such enormous political and economic power!
They have structured the entire industry for their benefit in the form of a Monopoly and National sold 49% of our Hydro Assets to set up a $400million irrigation slush fund for dairy intensification!
I am sick to death at the way the entire economy is forced to bend over backwards for a sunset industry that will crash the millisecond the fast food industry can create a synthetic milk powder.
By the way claiming that NZs emissions mean nothing in comparison to China and India isn’t a justification to do nothing, it’s an acknowledgement that radical adaptation is the only move left because those Goliath economies have already doomed us to a dangerous climate change future!
Shouldn’t the Corporate Farmer Quislings be apologising to us?
The Corporate Farmer Quislings tell us the $20billion in trade they get from John Key’s ‘all our cows in one Beijing paddock’ strategy is beneficial for us.
Really?
I don’t see any of that fucking money!
I pay a price for NZ dairy and NZ meat that is set by an international market, so we are competing with the 400million others wanting that product!
So I don’t see no price benefit from those quisling corporate farmers getting richer.
A cow shits the same as 14 humans, we have 10 million cows, that’s the equivalent of 140million humans pissing and shitting into our rivers.
I don’t see no environmental benefit from these quisling corporate farmers getting richer.
We are now utterly addicted to Chinese money and can’t disentangle ourselves from their influence and power, especially with 200 000 Chinese NZers now living in Auckland, a city of 1.65million.
I don’t see no sovereignty benefit from these quisling corporate farmers getting richer.
The quisling corporate farmers claim they are generating jobs, yet they import cheap foreign labour to do those jobs!
Look at the fuss kicked up by Farmers at the mere suggestion they pay for their pollution!
This money generated by trade with China comes with so many fish hooks there’s more hook than fish.
We have been betrayed by the quisling corporate farmers and their National Party patsies. THEY are getting rich, we aren’t.
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I think you spelt “lynch” wrong.
Being able to drive or fly somewhere is what we want to do . All the things oil is used in is what we want or think we want .Life is better because of these choices so the oil barons set up huge companies to supply this product .Oil workers are highly paid because we want what they produce so much we are happy to pay high prices
.It does not take a rocket scientist to work out if you burn a product it produces waste but we excepted that waste as the cost of doing what we want so what do you charge people with who provide this product to us .
Kudos to the people going after fossil fuel industry leaders. One hopes they fair better and have more protections than human rights lawyer Steven Donziger following his victory over Chevron.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/25/steven-donziger-walks-free-after-993-days-completely-unjust-detention