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Other people besides oil companies knew 50 years ago too, so this is hardly relevant. Nothing would have changed if they had made this public. Hell, we all kn
by fallingknife 3y ago
Other people besides oil companies knew 50 years ago too, so this is hardly relevant. Nothing would have changed if they had made this public. Hell, we all know now and still aren't doing much. This whole conspiracy theory is just cope from people who won't admit that it is us and our oil consumption that is the problem and the companies are just there to give us what we want.
- int_19h 3y agoWe aren't doing nearly as much as we should be, but we're certainly doing something - and at time spans like 50 years, said "something" can compound quite significantly. Even if we've ultimately had the same discussion about climate that we ended up having today, but several decades earlier, that would already be a fairly big improvement in the current state of affairs. You also completely ignore the other, and arguably more important, part where those companies didn't just bury the research - no, they knowingly developed highly effective agitprop, often intentionally disguised as science, to blunt the public reaction when the story eventually broke for the general public. They have straight up bought politicians to peddle said agitprop, too.
- digdugdirk 3y agoIt's the difference between your car's brakes failing and you plowing through a crosswalk and tragically killing a pedestrian, and being a serial killer. Intentionality is key, and ExxonMobil is a highly profitable psychopath in this regard.