Fossil Fuel Companies
Decades ago, oil company researchers reported to company executives that
pollution would damage the atmosphere.
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“By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late...”
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Never-the-less, it was decided to continue selling as much oil as before,
and to keep the research findings a secret.
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Concern for humans is not the industry’s #1 priority: ​
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“They base everything on risk. ‘How many lives can we...lose before we...deal with this’?
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...‘They pledge repeatedly to run a safer operation, yet they continue to cut costs’.”
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Exxon "knowingly...supported...military forces who tortured, killed and sexually assaulted...”
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Maybe a government can step in to penalize criminal behavior? ​​​
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- “Executives...can engage in blatant fraud, get caught, and suffer almost no consequences.”
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“Executives who oversaw this fraud kept the money they were paid."
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Koch Industries plays the extractive game. How do they do it?
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"Koch employees calculated...the...cost of...safety…‘It would take away from our profit margin'."
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What have timber, coal, gas, and oil companies learned from their misdeeds?
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“Saddling taxpayers with cleanup costs after pocketing the profits would be outrageous,
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yet many oil producers have done just that, walking away from millions of wells."
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“The industry has a history of...abandoning projects that are no longer economically viable,
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- Can we look forward to corporate responsibility in the future?
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​ “Exxon...has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions”
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“'I don’t expect ExxonMobil or Dow DuPont to change'.”
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“Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...
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all struck lucrative arrangements…[with Big Oil] and...are actively pursuing more.”
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“Chinese companies have been building hundreds of coal plants.”
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ora pro nobis
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