Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions

Leading energy companies are intent on pushing the world in the opposite direction, expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative. It is evidence that they are motivated not by record warming, but by record profits, experts say.

  • Opafi@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    expanding fossil fuel production and insisting that there is no alternative.

    No alternative? No fucking alternative? Like… We’re talking about extinction level scenarios and they’re like “yeah, okay, we’re all going to die, but I don’t think your suggested alternatives to that are viable”

    Like, don’t they see that their profits ultimately depend on humanity existing to consume their products? What the fuck is wrong with them? Who do they think will bail them out when the planet is too fucking hot to live on?

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They hope or think they will be dead long before that happens and fuck future generations they are sociopaths.

    • flybynightpotato@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Companies like Exxon literally buy up green technology that could have huge, net-positive, impacts in the climate resiliency sphere/in combating climate change because they don’t want the competition. The sheer audacity of this bald-faced fucking lie. What is the point of money on a dead planet, morons?