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Mr-Warmth t1_j437kxi wrote

Corporate America has never placed ethics ahead of profits, in fact, if ethics were found to have hurt a corporations bottom line, the CEO would be exposed to legal action from the investors.

It is fucking shameful, and if corporations are to be considered "people" under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, then they should be subject to the same laws and rules as the rest of us...not just the ones that let them hoard more wealth.

Greedy fucking pigs.

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SouthofAkron t1_j437xct wrote

Exxon executives: Good news is we are making billions of dollars a year. Bad news is we destroyed the planet.

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SelectiveSanity OP t1_j438i8s wrote

Replying to SouthofAkron (#1,344,615)

Good news, it won't effect us in our life time! Bad news, it will severely impact and dramatically change both the world and human civilization and survival for our children and their children's children.

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Oski96 t1_j43a4b1 wrote

PBS' "Frontline" did a 3-part episode on this last season. Highly recommended

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JoeBoredom t1_j43affy wrote

Exxon is an oil company, oil is what they do, it is all they know. I bought Exxon-Mobil stock two years ago when West Texas Intermediate went negative.

With the dividends I have paid for a Nissan Leaf, and a solar power system with battery backup. When I sell the stock I will build a new house further back on my property and lease out my current green home.

I gamed the bastards. They paid for my transition away from their economy. After I sell they can go F themselves.

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ChuckFeathers t1_j43g4lw wrote

With the help of Republican "think tanks" who propagated disinformation for decades.

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pogomelon t1_j43m0s8 wrote

This is news now? I thought we all knew this already. Are people living under a rock?

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Shot-Spray5935 t1_j43s243 wrote

If Exxon could easily hire climate scientists to predict global warming 50 years ago how come nobody else could? Especially scientists working at public universities and publicly funded institutes? Were they all incompetent or lazy?

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Figuurzager t1_j444h1s wrote

Replying to Shot-Spray5935 (#1,345,606)

It's not necessarily about the scientists it's about having the voice (or paying for it) to push it in the public or out of the public.

You can be right as much as you want but if you'll get big money after you because of where your right about some single voices at best won't get heard.

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newsman0719 t1_j44adqa wrote

Once again we rail against capitalists for doing what capitalists do. I find it hard to build up any rage against Exxon for doing what was expected of them. Let me know if you find a story about a capitalist who actually did something without profit as the objective.

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DeaDGoDXIV t1_j44u152 wrote

Replying to Mr-Warmth (#1,344,606)

You know, I remember the "ethics training" we had to take yearly at my first real job. In one of the yearly training videos they "highlight an example of favouritism" (names changed, of course) in which a manager was so impressed with the landscaping contractor the company hired and wanted to hire them for her property. She was reprimanded when the contractor reported it.

Meanwhile, three years before I'd watched that video, the head of the "Network Design and Implementation" department had the entire department outsourced to a tech company she used to be a higher up at, and still had stock in. She got a promotion.

The kicker? If my father didn't work in that department none of my co-workers would have known. While there was only about 30 of us in that shop, all 30 of us stopped buying hardware from that company out of principle. Doubt we made the tiniest bit of impact on their bottom line, but it was the only course of action we could take because our "Ethics Department" apparently didn't have any ethics and saw "no conflict of interest" or "favouritism" but the lady that wanted to hire a landscaping contractor she knew did good work did.

Gee, I wonder why?

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calartnick t1_j44uhp0 wrote

This is pretty standard, not oniony at all

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Realityisatoilet t1_j44zrhh wrote

Replying to newsman0719 (#1,346,545)

So. You seem pretty dense. The difference here is the same idiots who are saying it's not a problem...had the data it was a huge problem. Decades ago.

That's a big fucking deal. Mainly because so many on the right still bury their heads in the sand on this topic. It's still very relevant as a result....

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Realityisatoilet t1_j450fur wrote

Replying to Shot-Spray5935 (#1,345,606)

This isn't the own you think it is. The research they did was important to them as an industry & their future as a global player worldwide. It was done for selfish reasons, not altruistic ones. The fact that they came away with good data is just proof they needed to know what was coming for their own survival. AND to discredit it once decades of legit. research on their end confirmed their worst fears,

You are not making the point you think they are. Embarrassing....

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quantril t1_j451btd wrote

This is where “corporations are people” should mean a corporation can also get the death penalty. And the people running that company (current and retired) should also get the death penalty. Heads on pikes outside a shuttered Exxon HQ would send a good message.

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ShitpostOracle t1_j4567de wrote

If there is ever a revolution in the near future I hope these people are held accountable and punished. But man do I have my doubts that'll ever happen.

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StuckinReverse89 t1_j45embl wrote

And people still say climate change is a hoax and the science doesnt back it up.

Even Exxon, a company who has every incentive to deny climate change, basically found science to provide climate change exists back in the 70s and lied to bury it.

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DennisHakkie t1_j45x47g wrote

Heck, these assholes bought the drilling rights for every piece of Antartica and the north pole where the snow would melt the soonest. Meaning “more oil”

How about just banning all oil and coal usage in 10 years? People will adapt. Just kill the industry in a single blow, with no-one giving a single damn afterwards

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Ahllhellnaw t1_j46bgky wrote

Isn't the carbon footprint a whole ass made up idea from ExxonMobil in the first place?

Never trust activism that originates, and is maintained by, the industry it claims to be criticizing.

Else you'll be supporting narratives written by the responsible parties as they pass the blame to anyone they can make you believe is more culpable, including yourself.

The head of BP is the main backer (and is on the board) of the activist groups ran by Greta's family. But instead of having a conversation with him, she's screaming at politicians about a stolen future? That stolen future, and one of the people most responsible for stelaing it, paid for her entire "activist" experience the last few years.

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Middle_Wishbone_515 t1_j4b8xqr wrote

One gets tired of sharing this story year after year, no accountability, dispiriting

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