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Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ... by mikeash on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:43PM (#19901718)
Exxon and friends have been deliberately misleading people for decades about the problem. You can’t propagandize people for thirty years and then turn around and say, this is really your fault for believing me.

If big oil companies had just pumped oil and responded to the market then I might agree with you. But that’s not at all what happened.

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Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ... by frereubu on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:04PM (#19902720)
The book "Private Empire" by Steve Coll is excellent on this. Unbearably frustrating at points, because it seems that Exxon were well aware of the issue and there were some suggestions rolling around that would have made them trailblazers in renewables, but they were just too risk-averse.
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