If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.
So.
The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: “We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions.”
https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
Who’s the most influential voice on climate change? Who’s to blame for inaction on climate change?
According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it’s environmental activists.
No, really:
“Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies.”
Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:
“Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that.”
Gets better.
He thinks unnamed ‘people who generate emissions’ should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)
“People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem.”
https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.
Not gross revenue.
Profit.
So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?
“Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue… This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?
"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents…
“The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil.”
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Wait… So, our “72 virgins” is a bigtiddied goth girl?
You sonnuvabitch, I’m in.
My princess is preferably the son of a neo-conservative politician so I can watch his father mald but I’ll take what I can get.
Next step: bypass the son, teach the Nazi dad to bottom properly.
She could be smoltiddied too…
NGL, that’s my preference. Moth or no.
edit: meant “goth”, but that works, too
Paint me like one of your Smol tiddied moth girls
Depends on the brush, I guess?
It’s time to bring back the corporate death penalty.
Edit: IIRC Standard Oil, the predecessor of Exxon, was instrumental in abolishing the US corporate death penalty.
You may want to add some information about all the subsidies the oil industry still gets, year on year, while the US government slashes subsidies for renewables: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds
The only way the oil industry can even remain viable, let alone competitive, is to prop it up with an unfair advantage in government money.
@voracitude I think the biggest subsidy of all is the hidden one.
Burning fossil fuels leads to more frequent and severe floods, droughts, bushfires, heatwaves, and hurricanes.
The costs of rebuilding and recovering from those disasters are a cost of using fossil fuels.
If the fossil fuel companies aren’t paying that cost, they’re receiving a subsidy. And it’s already a massive one.
Also.
I didn’t include it in the post above, but apparently the CEO of ExxonMobil is also totally against subsidies…
For climate action:
"The way that the government is incentivized and trying to catalyze investments in this space is through subsidies. Driving significant investments at a scale that even gets close to moving the needle is going to cost a lot of money.
…
“But I would tell you building a business on government subsidy is not a long-term sustainable strategy—we don’t support that.”
https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
Our military presence in the Middle East is a gigantic oil subsidy. Who does he think it is that is escorting oil tankers lol.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars guillotine time
Gun violence time comrade
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I agree with him people generating emissions should pay for it. Now let’s see how many tons of CO2 does Exxon produce, from drilling oil, transporting crude, refining it, transporting it onwards to its final destination…
I mean, it’s not like he’s not aware that every word coming out of his mouth is a lie…
This 3-part series from 2022 is really effective, imo. how big oil has pulled out the stops to keep us addicted to fossil fuels. Exxon features prominently (surprise surprise).
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-power-of-big-oil/
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Where have we heard this before?Look what you made me do!
God damn I’m glad the coppers will defend me you bitch.@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
It was said years ago, when climate change becomes undeniable, the deniers will blame the environmentalists. And that was a prediction not a joke.@SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Colleague of mine has always felt when the true impacts arrive, scientists will be blamed. “Why didn’t you tell us it would be this bad?”
@SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars projection is a tightly-coupled comorbidity of bad faith interlocutors.
Concerned about climate change?
You need to read @ajsadauskas 's 👆🏼 post (and some of the replies).Besides denial, gaslighting (shoving responsibility on you), and greenwashing, the fossil fuel industry push to label climate activists as criminals.
Don’t believe it?
They’ve been doing this for a while now, organised by such “institutions” as the Atlas network and ALEC.https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Thank you for reading that (& summarizing) so I didn’t have to. I think my head would have exploded 🤯@ajsadauskas Gaslighting, sociopathic motherfucker. It’s torches-and-pitchforks time. @fuck_cars
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars A vile man spreading disinformation; he’d have a bright future in the Republican Party.
@pedrobizbikedu Why would he give up his position as puppet-master of both parties to be a puppet in just one?
If you found information that is false, you could have pointed it out and corrected it. Instead you just accused them of spreading disinformation - wherever in the post that might be - without elaborating further and called them vile. Which, I might add, is against the rules.
Someone would indeed have a bright future in the Republican Party, but it’s not OP.
It’s against the rules to call the CEO of ExxonMobil a vile man?
Fuck that. I’ll say it myself. Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods is a vile piece of shit and if he weren’t actively destroying the planet with oil he’d be perfectly suited as a Republican politician given his aversion to truth.
And I agree! It’s just that the original comment sounded like they were accusing OP of spreading misinformation, not Exxon’s CEO. I will retract my earlier statement. Also, apologies to @pedrobizbikedu@mastodon.world.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars He’s the CEO of Exxon! We know he’s an evil lying shit before he opens his mouth. Everything else is just embellishment.
The article was paywalled for me, so here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240228154718/https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/
The pictures are blurred out, but then again you’re better off not looking at this lying bastard’s face.
Where are the firing squads, when we need to put the fossil fuel moguls to death?
