Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is i

Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is inexcusable, but this is a relatively small aspect of their nature. The majority of their activities are done because we consumers collectively ask them to do it. Pretending that there’s a small number of bad-guy oil bosses is attractive because it makes the problem seem tractable. The inconvenient truth is that the collective action we seek amounts to collective change in our own lives. Sent from my luxury smartphone.