The science was mostly settled and obvious on climate change, to the extent that the corporate actors with the most incentive to pretend it was nothing acknowle

The science was mostly settled and obvious on climate change, to the extent that the corporate actors with the most incentive to pretend it was nothing acknowledged it. They invested heavily in contingency plans under the assumption that it was only a matter of time until regulation made it untenable to burn fossil fuels for energy on anything like the previous scale. Nothing was done.