Leading energy companies are intent on pushing the world in the opposite direction, expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative. It is evidence that they are motivated not by record warming, but by record profits, experts say.
expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative.
No alternative? No fucking alternative? Likeā¦ Weāre talking about extinction level scenarios and theyāre like āyeah, okay, weāre all going to die, but I donāt think your suggested alternatives to that are viableā
Like, donāt they see that their profits ultimately depend on humanity existing to consume their products? What the fuck is wrong with them? Who do they think will bail them out when the planet is too fucking hot to live on?
They hope or think they will be dead long before that happens and fuck future generations they are sociopaths.
Companies like Exxon literally buy up green technology that could have huge, net-positive, impacts in the climate resiliency sphere/in combating climate change because they donāt want the competition. The sheer audacity of this bald-faced fucking lie. What is the point of money on a dead planet, morons?
Like, donāt they see that their profits ultimately depend on humanity existing to consume their products?
Well, thatās a problem for the next quarter. Right now we have to push those sales.
Problem is the ceos, shareholders are mostly in their 50s so they only have at most 50 years of their lives left. They donāt need to care about the future. They donāt need to care about warming , heating, burning, as they can turn on their AC and stay comfy. Also Many oil production countries are not the most morally responsible countries.
Rich donāt give a rats ass about any plebs. They know humanity is doomed. They will live their ābestā life possible in resorts or on yachts, etcā¦until end of times.
If all of the oil companies comply, all is gonna be well. If only one of them doesnt, things are gonna end up well as well. If only two dont, its probably still gonna be good. If threeā¦
They just all wanna be that āone company that doesnt complyā, so they all dont comply.
There is a known experiment about 100 students being given a choice before a test - choose A and you gain 2 extra points. Choose B and you gain 6 extra points. However, if more than 30% of the students choose B, no one gains anything. From what i checked, in every iteration of this experiment, no one gained anything in the end. Thats just human nature.
Remember, folks, itās only āsocialismā when we talk about sharing profits among the people. Sharing blame and responsibility is perfectly okay!
A surprise to no one.
āThey (Oil companies) have left no doubt that their pledges were deployed for cynical political purposes, only to be ditched when they no longer suited the industryās strategic position,ā
That strategic position was to avoid being governed, said Timmons Roberts, professor of environment and sociology at Brown University.
āThe climate commitments ā¦ were almost certainly made to give the impression that they donāt need to be regulated because their voluntary pledges are adequate,ā
You know, Iām kinda tired of every article about oil companies being either something straight out of police reports or just being the same āNo shit, Sherlockā about them being evil, lying, manipulative and greedy assholes. Iād love to see them being fined some 50 billion dollars, but I feel theyād manage to overturn that anyway. Justice and police exist to protect property.
The problem with fining industry is that industry isnāt sentient. Itās the C-levels and management types that need to be seriously punished for pursuing profits over human lives. As long as we donāt do that, nothing is going to change. If you fine Shell 50 billion dollars, nothing substantial changes for the higher ups. Even if these guys would stop making money all together, it would just mean they would have to stop spending so much god damned money and just live of of the millions theyāve already made.
I love the movie V for Vendetta.
Just throwing that out there.
