Judith Pakosinski
Peter GleickOMFG. "Exxon CEO blames the public for failure to fix #climate change."
Could there be a more stunning example of hypocrisy?
Stella C 🇨🇦@petergleick don’t understand reaction. Guy lied 4 years about climate change- maybe he’s doing a Trump & saying an outrageous thing to deflect attention. Why believe one word he says?
Ghost Dansing ☠️☑️he's a dick. just sayin'
Darrin West@petergleick They didn’t have to smoke all those addictive cigarettes we sold to them! We just responded to the market. /s
Ben S.@petergleick I read an article on this, and it's actually worse: He suggested that consumers should be forced to suffer an even higher cost of living, so that businesses can make greener choices without sacrificing any profits.
We already have too much wealth disparity, and too high of daily living costs due to greedflation. Externalizing the costs of fighting climate change onto society in order to insulate investor class wealth is bullshit.
bovaz@HunterZ @petergleick Externalizing the cost of dealing with negative consequences is a core tenet of capitalism. Also, externalizing the cost of creating and maintaining any form of infrastructure.
@bovaz @petergleick I guess this becomes another exhibit in the "capitalism is bullshit" argument then.
Nicole ParsonsExxon knew & lied about it. Then funded the GOP to subvert democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199570023/exxon-climate-change-fossil-fuels-global-warming-oil-gas
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/climate/exxon-mobil-global-warming-climate-change.html
Exxon bought a Supreme Court to thwart lawsuits
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/climate-crisis-big-oil-lawsuits-constitution
https://www.wcel.org/blog/economic-case-suing-big-oil
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/california-oil-lawsuit-newsom.html
Seán Fenian@petergleick ".... Again."
The Doctor@petergleick Urge to LART rising...
Ian Hecht 🇨🇦@petergleick "If you didn't want me to steal your TV, you shouldn't have bought one!"
Bandersnatch@petergleick That sounds like a dare.
The Green Knight@petergleick I think he's right.
now let's go burn down his empire! 🔥
GulfofMexico@petergleick I’ve heard gaslighting, but OMFG.
April Eaton@petergleick Probably less hipocracy and more intentional misdirection. And considering this has been thier policy for decades, I think that's what I'm gonna go with.
Felipe 
@petergleick
so is he saying "nobody stops me so I will keep doing it"
so is he saying "nobody stops me so I will keep doing it"
Jim McClureMaster class gaslighting
Fahri Reza 🍉As an IT and economy refugee I have no idea what the colonizer was talking about @petergleick
Deus@petergleick Taking cues from Coke.
Look up 'Citizen Coke'. When plastic started to revolutionize consumer society back in the 60s, Coke's environmental strategy was to partner with an org called 'Keep America Beautiful' whose main goal was to tell consumers, "You're the bad ones, you're the litter bugs. Industry shouldn't be blamed for this plastic waste."
The 'Keep America Beautiful' campaign with that Native American Indian weeping was a huge success because of Coke's environmental strategy.
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw@petergleick implicit permission for the public to burn his business to the ground.
CyclesBecauseSummerIsComing😀@petergleick especially now that they are sueing followThis, an NGO representing the past of the public that wants to act for the climate in shareholder meetings.
Kapitän Clownfeuer@petergleick Exxeon CEO blames public for failure to give him a damned good kicking.
Grumble@petergleick It's true that society hasn't eaten this fucker yet.
Oliver D. Reithmaier@petergleick in a way, he's right. We failed to regulate Exxon & Big Oil out of business.
Enrique@petergleick
Think of climate deniers
Think of climate deniers
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth@petergleick hypocracy? Yes! Blame shifting? Yes!
But as long as "the public" purchases ever bigger and heavier cars and gas-guzzling SUVs, he does have a point. It is not like we don't know what causes climate change by now.
But as long as "the public" purchases ever bigger and heavier cars and gas-guzzling SUVs, he does have a point. It is not like we don't know what causes climate change by now.
Björn 🌸 Starkimarm@petergleick
He should thang god every day, that there aren't actually climate terrorists (yet).
He should thang god every day, that there aren't actually climate terrorists (yet).
Supportive Tree-based lifeform@petergleick "we're all looking for the guy who did this"
Baron Vonskinnback@petergleick so if I were to petrol bomb his home by his logic I could blame him for failing to prevent the fire...🤔
Albert Cardona“Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating.
That heating is largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels, and much of the current impacts of that combustion — rising temperatures, extreme weather — were predicted by Exxon scientists almost half a century ago.
The company’s 1970s and 1980s projections were “at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models,” according to a 2023 Harvard study.”
Regarding technology to stop “planetary heating” (global warming, ffs), I would like to think he means technology that dispenses with the need to burn fossil fuels in the first place, like a bicycle or a heat pump – both well over a century old. Heating up the planet was a choice made by his company.
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating. That heating…
BashStKid@petergleick As always, this is the drug dealer’s excuse.
I’m just supplying a need
If I don’t, someone else would
I’m not harming anyone
You get the point.
Pepijn Schmitz@petergleick He is entirely correct. We, collectively, are the ones who keep voting for people who won't fix the problem. We are the ones who keep buying all their crap. If the public stopped buying their oil, Exxon would go bust and climate change would not be a problem.
🍀 Egghat НетBойне 🍀@petergleick that has been their longterm strategy:
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (2021; looking back as far as 1972): Exxon Mobil's Messaging Shifted Blame for Warming to Consumers https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-mobils-messaging-shifted-blame-for-warming-to-consumers/
Weltzeitgeist@petergleick Well, he's right. Let's get to work. We don't have enough guillotines right now..
Xucaen ☮️💚🌿big oil is finally admitting that there is a climate crisis.
Konstantin Weddige@petergleick "We only did it for the shareholders to stop whining. Nobody expected people to actually buy our propaganda."
LivingCode@petergleick "So, we lied... But You
YOU BOUGHT IT!"
YOU BOUGHT IT!"
John Gordon@petergleick He is, of course, articulating the standard GOP argument for carbon capture and probably climate engineering. Part of it is even true — it is indeed too late to hit ideal targets.
But, wow, they are shameless.
StarkRG
Chris@petergleick #source https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-ceo-blames-public-for-failure-to-fix-climate-change/
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
The world isn’t on track to meet its climate goals — and it’s the public’s fault, a leading oil company CEO told journalists. Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods told editors from Fortune that the world has “waited too long” to begin investing in a broader suite of technologies to slow planetary heating. That heating…
Christian Schwägerl@petergleick @terliwetter Of course. When climate havoc is complete and unfixable, those who denied and caused it will blame scientists and activists for not warning loud enough in a large climate guilt projection op.
Sasha Akhavi@petergleick they’re right; we failed in our responsibility to dissolve Exxon. Ah well, best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; 2nd best time is now…
Oblomov
BoredPeter@petergleick he says this while simultaneously knowing that Exxon mobile has lobbied governments across the world to increase oil consumption (through forcing car based infrastructure on people) and to invade weaker countries with oil that Exxon mobile can steal to sell to the western countries that have become addicted to it
Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯@petergleick They have a point. The public have failed to bring back the guillotine.
💀 𝓕airchild 💀@petergleick "Stop punching yourself. See what you me do?"