New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fuelling climate disasters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/17/new-york-big-oil-fueling-climate-disasters

Kamala Embraces Fossil Fuels: After All, Hurricanes Don’t Fuel Themselves!

Fossil fuel capital propaganda

A 27-year-old who owns a $4 million Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Carbon claims his hypercar goes a mere 62 miles on a full tank of fuel - Luxurylaunches

https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/bugatti-chiron-pur-sport-carbon-range.php

Experts were clear on why the world is failing to tackle the climate crisis. A lack of political will was cited by almost 3/4 of scientists, while 60% also blamed corporate interests, such as the fossil fuel industry.

“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south,” said a South African scientist, who chose not to be named. “The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.”

#Science vs #FossilFuels

In February, Exxon Mobil sued the U.S. investment firm Arjuna Capital and Netherlands-based green shareholder firm Follow This to keep a shareholder resolution they sponsored from appearing on the agenda of its May 29 annual meeting. The resolution urged Exxon Mobil to work harder to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its products.

The company's legal threat worked: Days after the lawsuit was filed, the shareholder groups, weighing their relative strength against an oil behemoth, withdrew the proposal and pledged not to refile it in the future.

Yet even though the proposal no longer exists, the company is still pursuing the lawsuit, running up its own and its adversaries' legal bills. Its goal isn't hard to fathom.

"What purpose does this have other than sending a chill down the spines of other investors to keep them from speaking up and filing resolutions?"

Environmental concerns shared to a senate inquiry into Middle Arm Industrial hub

Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

Darren Woods tells Fortune consumers not willing to pay for clean-energy transition, prompting backlash from climate experts

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Weird how (tobacco|fossil fuels |plastics) corporations all knew their products caused serious harm or death to humans and the biosphere, yet all those corporations are still operating.

An individual human who knowingly causes such harm to even one other would be jailed for a long time (killed, in the USA).

We live in an era where corporate rights far exceed human rights.

"'Smoking gun proof': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954"

"There is overwhelming evidence the oil and gas industry has been misleading the public and regulators around the climate risks of their product for 70 years. Trusting them to be part of the solutions is foolhardy."

Billionaires and other wealthy individuals should not have the right to appropriate and use thousands of times more fossil fuels than the rest of us. Another example of inequality being a big cause of our climate crisis.

The people again march against the burning of diesel fuel in the Shazand Thermal Power Plant built for burning gas, resulting in pollution of their homes in Arak, central Iran.

Also, it's right next to a National Park, and to agriculture, so that's... not great either.