For decades, effective actions have lagged behind the needs of the moment. The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report suggested that at least part of the reason for this inaction has been “due to misinformation about climate science that has sowed uncertainty.”
The full scale of this misinformation was revealed in May 2024, when the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability completed its three year investigation into how U.S. oil companies sought to avoid accountability for climate change.
The report — tellingly titled Denial, Disinformation and DoubleSpeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change — explores Big Oil’s decades-long campaign of deception and denial finding that: …
Kind of like how 3M covered up that their forever chemicals have found their way into every living thing on the planet. You, me, your kids and loved ones, your pets…everything…has their forever chemicals. They bind to proteins in our blood causing a wide range of ailments (Cancer, immunodeficiency, obesity, and more).
And they knew the whole time. Continued to do it all for the greed.
So, yeah, it doesn’t surprise me that oil companies will destroy the planet in a blind greed, a lust, for profits.
