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Perhaps i misspoke. By less settles i meant that it was less known about and believed among the average population rather than as a scientific consensus. The re

Perhaps i misspoke. By less settles i meant that it was less known about and believed among the average population rather than as a scientific consensus. The relevant discussion here is corporate risk disclosure. If a corporation says it does not need to disclose a known risk because everyone knows about it it has to be something that is really universally known and universally believed to be true. Something like gravity. That certainly was not and it is not true about climate change. There are still people that believe it is not true and there were much more of them in the 80s and 90s. We are not talking about scientific consensus here. The exxon stock was not sold exclusively to scientists. We are talking the average joe.

SturgeonsLaw 7y ago
> believed among the average population Yes, and 45% of the population believe in ghosts [0], 29% of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim [1] and 40% of Americans believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old [2], so frankly I put very little stock in what the average Joe thinks these days. There has been a constant propaganda campaign waged in the media by people who have an interest in maintaining the status quo regarding extractive industries, and a rather large proportion of the population has eaten it all up. --- [0] http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/ghosttoplines.pdf http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/ghosttoplines.pdf [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/09/14/a-startling-number-of-americans-still-believe-president-obama-is-a-muslim/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/09... [2] https://www.livescience.com/46123-many-americans-creationists.html https://www.livescience.com/46123-many-americans-creationist...