Not sure why we would even bother with hearing what an oil CEO has to say about this.
“I’m 60, the world will burn in 30 years. It’s too late to do anything now, and I’ll be dead by the time it gets bad, why don’t you all just go live out your lives on your yachts and eat cake all day like I’m going to do?”
Despicable! The people who are burning the Earth have names and addresses.
And their heads are still attached unfortunatley
but its CEO says that consumers should “pay the price.”
AKA: we are about to raise our pricing and blame some greenwashing initiatives that we aren’t actually going to do.
Must we acknowledge that these companies made petroleum products for consumers, who are us and our parents? Yes.
Can we acknowledge that they have systemically lobbied to delay adoption of technological alternatives? Also yes.
Should we be surprised a CEO of any company, when given a podium, takes the chance to defend his business, and pass off negatives to literally anyone else? Absolutely not.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.