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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Can you please provide examples?
I have my doubts that all of society just accepted what “oil and gas companies” told them with regard to denying climate change existed / exists outright and that all consumers are like little lambs cruelly and unknowingly deceived.
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Oil & gas has hugely contributed and continues to contribute to our progress over the past century. We all need it, we all use it, oil companies produce it within whatever regulatory frameworks they are subjected to. But we all now know, or should know, that it has massive global impacts on the environment which lead to untold future displacements and costs.
To the extent that we all use fossil fuels at all makes us responsible for this, but a more realist statement would be that the extent we use more than the minimum necessary and controllable amount. Drive a big truck? Live in a big house? You are more responsible for climate change than someone living in a small apartment and riding their bike. But they use energy too. Not to mention how many people have significant investments in oil and gas as part of their retirement savings?
We're all guilty, and should be doing what we can to reduce our hydro carbon consumption. My comments on oil and gas being criminal is not that, it's deliberate actions by the industry over the years to downplay, deny and deflect, thus making the fight against climate change significantly harder and later than it should be. The people behind this should be treated on par with war criminals, such is the scale of their impact.
Here's an example article, but you'd have to be loving under a rock not to be aware of the industry's concerted actions over the years.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ge-was-nothing
