What Fossil Fuel Industry Deception Tells Us About How to Survive the Climate Emergency
On the last day of June, an entire village in Canada was engulfed in a wildfire after the country recorded its highest temperature ever. That same day, Greenpeace UK's investigative team published a striking tape of two Exxon senior employees' candid accounts of the fossil fuel industry's surreptitious lobbying efforts to undermine climate action.
ExxonMobil and other major oil and gas companies have long been deceiving the public about the catastrophic dangers of their products in order to undermine international and national climate policy and maintain their social license. This latest tape is a significant contribution to mounting evidence of the industry's ongoing disinformation campaign in the service of protecting its highly lucrative and planet-destroying business, particularly at this pivotal moment.
On the tape, the lobbyists detail how the industry is currently applying its deceptive tactics to wipe climate initiatives out of President Joe Biden's original $2 trillion infrastructure proposal. Although many suspected such interference, we now have first-hand confirmation from an industry insider who is apparently playing a leading role in the effort. (In response to the interviews, ExxonMobil posted a statement on its website denying that the lobbyists' comments represented the company's "position on a variety of issues …
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