California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
Launching one of the most prominent climate lawsuits in the nation, the state claims Exxon, Shell, BP and others misled the public and seeks creation of a special fund to pay for recovery.
For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.
This makes total sense. California was financially harmed by these oil companies, and they did it knowingly. They should pay for all the damage then.
The ones in charge during that time deserve to be behind bars, putting their profits before the lives of future generations
Good for California. I strongly suspect the Supreme Court will throw this out, and even if the oil firms have to pay the cash will disappear into California's corrupt bureaucracy instead of being used for anything useful...
... but people need to know how badly the oil companies betrayed the Earth and the human race in pursuit of profit. They are directly or indirectly responsible for millions, if not billions, of deaths in every country in every continent in the world. They have committed acts of war against every nation on the planet. They have committed not only genocide but ecocide.
And this, if nothing else, gets the message out.
State of California, I'll hand you this:
That's the most recent piece of a big chunk of documents which have come out during earlier lawsuits over the past ten or twelve years. The Drilled Podcast has been chronicling the whole thing in detail.
Paywall-bypass to the WSJ article that The Guardian is describing