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.

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

God that image is depressing

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The ones in charge during that time deserve to be behind bars, putting their profits before the lives of future generations

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)