The uncomfortable truth is this, every one of us uses their products, in one way or another.
The electricity that lights our homes.
The fuel that moves our cars, buses, ships, and airplanes.
The concrete, steel, plastics, fertilizers, medicines, and electronics that make modern life possible.
The food system, the construction industry, global logistics, heating, cooling, data centers, all of it is built on energy supplied largely by fossil fuels. Those 32 companies did not emit carbon in a vacuum. They ext
Who buys burns the fuel?
Their customers
Will the emissions stop if the customers stop burning the fuel.
Yes.
Will they continue to produce the fuel if customers stop buying it?
No.
I know a lot of you are itching to tell me about how this is all a plot by big oil to trick people into taking responsibility for the fuel they purchase and burn. Don’t bother.
The oil companies will keep selling it as long as we buy it. Emissions will happen for as long as we keep burning the fuel.
And no, you
Yes. These companies only pump and refine oil. (OK I admit that refining oil results in CO2 emission)
I think a lot of blame should fall on environmental groups that worked hard to oppose nuclear energy throughout the world.
I'm not a climate denier- not even a tiny little bit.
But this is some boneheaded fucking logic.
Saying that the producer of the fuel is the one responsible for the emissions when it is burnt is just a weak fucking attempt at reducing the web of responsibility to someone easier to target, when the real culprit is staring at you in the mirror.
All 17 are controlled by countries that opposed a proposed fossil fuel phaseout at the Cop30 UN climate summit in December
Wild! You're saying that 17 countries with economies based in large part on fossil fuels didn't agree to sabotage their own economies??!!
We may not like that they won't ruin their economies to save the planet, but it shouldn't be surprising.
But this is some boneheaded fucking logic.
Saying that the producer of the fuel is the one responsible for the emissions when it is burnt is just a weak fucking attempt at reducing the web of responsibility to someone easier to target, when the real culprit is staring at you in the mirror.