Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Oct 25, 2024

Such conduct amounts to reckless endangerment, said Aaron Regunberg, senior policy counsel with Public Citizen’s climate program.

“Reckless endangerment occurs when someone engages in reckless conduct that risks injuring or killing another person,” he said. “That’s exactly what these companies and their CEOs have done.”

Forty cities and states have filed civil lawsuits against oil majors in recent years for their #emissions and promotion of #ClimateDoubt.

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https://www.climatefiles.com/exxonmobil/1982-memo-to-exxon-management-about-co2-greenhouse-effect/

1982 Memo to Exxon Management about CO2 Greenhouse Effect - Climate Files

November 12, 1982 Exxon’s M.B. Glaser, manager of the Environmental Affairs Program, sends a memo to Exxon management on the CO2 greenhouse effect intended for the management staff to familiarize themselves with the subject. Glaser includes the April 1, 1982 “CO2 Greenhouse Effect: Technical Review” report. In Glaser’s summary to management, he writes that the […]

Climate Files
bs2Oct 25, 2023
> .. historians Naomi Oreskes and Erick M. Conway document how a handful of right-wing ideologues — all scientists — have (mis)shaped U.S. policy for decades, delaying government action on life-and-death issues from cigarettes and second-hand smoke, to #AcidRain, and now, finally, to #ClimateChange.
https://grist.org/article/from-tobacco-to-climate-change-merchants-of-doubt-undermined-the-science/
#MerchantsOfDoubt #ManufacturedControversy #NaomiOreskes #ErickMConway
#ScientistsForSale #Tobacco #Cigarettes #ClimateScienct #ClimateDoubt
From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.”— Margaret Mead Because Americans are optimists we tend to see Mead’s observation as upbeat and life-affirming (as it was probably intended). Blinkered by optimism, however, we miss the dark flip side of her observation — that a few fanatics can do immense […]

Grist
JeroenApr 21, 2023
#climatechange #climatedenial #climatedoubt #climate #tobacco