BentleySep 27, 2023

California Sues Big Oil 🧵

That #COP28 is being held in a #Petrostate with an #OilBoss in charge in 2023 as our cities literally burn around us will be a gobsmacking fact for future historians. It reveals an industry not even slightly fearful of a global population whose #LifeAndDeath they trade for profit.

It couldn't be clearer: we need to follow #GavinNewsom's lead and #SueBigOil.

#CaliforniaLawsuit #ClimateChange

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cop-28-uae-fossil-fuel-climate-crisis-b2392621.html

Why on earth is a giant petrostate hosting Cop28?

Putting the United Arab Emirates in charge of this year’s international climate conference is like getting a tobacco company to lead an anti-smoking convention, fumes Anthony Harwood

The Independent
Show threadBentleySep 27, 2023

California Sues Big Oil 🧵 /2

Every day these are the tactics for #OilBosses & their henchmen is a day it gets easier to not only turn down their multi-billion taxpayer dollar #CarbonCapture scam but also to see the historic #CaliforniaLawsuit as not just possible but critical path

#SueBigOil #ClimateChange

https://www.vox.com/climate/23885799/climate-change-denial-fossil-fuel-companies-exxon-mobil

How to recognize the new climate change denial, explained by a climate scientist

Delay, deflect, downplay, and other ways fossil fuel companies block climate action.

Vox
Show threadBentleySep 27, 2023

California Sues Big Oil 🧵 /3

Just as they always knew how bad #ClimateChange would get, #BigOil knows exactly how done the status quo is. All humanity lives under the shadow of them establishing an optimal #EveryLastDrop exit strategy before the rest of us force em out. #California just pulled the fire alarm

#SueBigOil #ClimateEmergency

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/california-sues-oil-companies-00116398

California goes on offense against Big Oil

California is one of the country’s top oil and gas producers, and Chevron, one of the defendants, is headquartered in the state.

POLITICO
Show threadBentley

California Sues Big Oil 🧵 /4

When the world looks back to Humankind's transition to a #ClimateSmart world, the #CaliforniaLawsuit will be one of those ticks on the timeline. I'm not sure its significance can be overstated. One more nail-in-the coffin of a still ravenously profiting #BigOil.

🙏 #GavinNewsom

#SueBigOil #ClimateChange

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/fossil-fuel-companies-climate-change-political-leaders-1.6977578

'A moment for honesty': More political leaders are directly linking fossil fuels to climate change | CBC News

The idea that fossil fuels are largely responsible for climate change made its way through New York City last week, as the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Climate Ambition Summit and NYC Climate Week collectively drew in thousands of participants. But it wasn't only written on protest placards. 

CBC
Sep 27, 2023 at 2:33pmWeb
Show threadBentleySep 27, 2023

California Sues Big Oil 🧵 /5

Officially calling #CaliforniaLawsuit a turning of the tide, #SueBigOil a prime tool in the toolkit for Humanity's safe-as-possible passage through the #ClimateEra &
@GavinNewsom as one of the first REAL in-office #ClimateLeaders of his generation. Driving right at the problem.

#ClimateChange

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-big-oil-california-lawsuit-1.6974091

California is suing Big Oil over climate 'deception.' Could the same happen in Canada? | CBC News

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at what effect the recent California lawsuit against oil and gas companies might have in Canada, and what a greenbelt is actually meant to accomplish.

CBC
Show threadHolly 🇨🇦Sep 30, 2023
@Bentley Yes please! Watching Danielle Smith’s head explode would be very gratifying.