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The Center for American Progress reports
Exclusive new footage of an internal Mobil Oil meeting with employees, obtained by ThinkProgress, shows then chief executive, Lucio Noto, discussing the impact of Mobil's product on climate change a full two decades ago. This admission occurred as the company worked externally to marginalize climate science and reject any responsibility for global warming and its impacts.
Noto's statement took place in 1998--one year prior to Mobil's merger with Exxon--and raises critical questions about top executives' awareness of the company's overall carbon footprint. The answers may have significant implications for the multiple climate lawsuits currently facing ExxonMobil and other oil giants.
[...] archival video footage of a Mobil Oil meeting seen by ThinkProgress indicates that 20 years ago, employees were raising concerns about the company's responsibility for climate change. In response to staff complaints, Noto--the man who would become ExxonMobil's second in command alongside Lee Raymond--appears to acknowledge the impact the company's product has on rising greenhouse gas emissions.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:00PM (9 children)
What else is there to say? The world is what it is; you've got to work with what you've got.
The Marxists branched into 2 competing groups: Fascists and Communists.
The Fascists ran hot and fast, and turned America into a well-oiled industrial killing machine, which would have gone to space had it not been for the Communists in Russia who insisted on continuing Marxist expansionism.
So, America re-jiggered itself into a well-integrated technological killing machine, funded by an economy that is built atop petroleum.
Though that killing machine may be wound down at some point, it still needs to be fed petroleum in the meantime, so WHAT THE FUCK ELSE CAN YOU EXPECT?
Feed the machine with one hand while using the other hand to craft alternative ways of organizing society. We want a smooth transition away from the killing machine, not a rocky one that triggers its most fearsome features.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:11PM (8 children)
Still not seeing a connection between your "well-integrated technological killing machine" and the "betterment of mankind".
What I expect is not the question. I am cynical enough to expect the worst. The question is, exactly how much devastation have the lies of the oil industry wrought on the people of this planet, and how do we get them to use their resources and energies in a more positive way?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:21PM (6 children)
Try again?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @04:01PM (5 children)
You may not have made such a connection, but you forget that "the machine" does no good and is obviously just a tool to further the greed of oil / war companies. It was never a requirement and the US could have stopped its imperialism a long time ago. Yes that is the world as it is now, but without telling the truth we won't get enough people pushing for change.
Maybe this revelation is still a bit too new for you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @04:14PM (4 children)
The Truth is that the toxic, self-entitled, illogical Communist rabble provoked America to transform itself from a dreamer into a mundane, reactionary thug.
Maybe this revelation is still a bit too new for you?
In any case, the petroleum economy has bettered mankind beyond its wildest dreams, and cannot just be ripped out in the name of politically motivated "science". Developer indisputably superior alternatives, and then we'll talk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:06PM
Oh I see, you're a blithering moron probably old enough to have ratted out his Eastern European immigrant neighbor cause he was probably a commie. Go boil your head, you sound more like a paid agitator but I'm not beyond thinking you're just brainwashed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:36PM (2 children)
Communist rabble lol.
So what, exactly, did this communist rabble do? Care to at least help us out with understanding your theory?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:55PM (1 child)
Those innocent little, caring, cooperative communists. Such nice people. The best people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:04PM
I'll take that as a no.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:35PM
Ask khallow, pretty sure he has an opinion he's like to share with us and, let's keep in mind, (misre)present as fact.