For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet

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climate15x no texto
“Out of the wealth of climate data that the company itself had generated, one word became preeminent: uncertainty .”
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Frase de exemploOut of the wealth of climate data that the company itself had generated, one word became preeminent: uncertainty .
oil11x no texto
“The supertanker was called the Esso Atlantic , and it belonged to the oil giant Exxon.”
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Frase de exemploThe supertanker was called the Esso Atlantic , and it belonged to the oil giant Exxon.
hub10x no texto
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Frase de exemploThe Latest Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley Catcher in the Rye "> Catcher in the Rye ">How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet Literary Hub Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Advertisers: Contact Us Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.
planet10x no texto
“If they are not, it means the end of the planet, or at least humanity’s place on it.”
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Frase de exemploIf they are not, it means the end of the planet, or at least humanity’s place on it.
earth9x no texto
“__________________________________ From The Vanishing Earth .”
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Frase de exemplo__________________________________ From The Vanishing Earth .
carbon8x no texto
“If, on the other hand, the absorption rate was low, and the capacity of the oceans as a carbon sink was limited, then, Shaw said, the Exxon scientists would deliver the “bad news” to the corporation.”
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Frase de exemploIf, on the other hand, the absorption rate was low, and the capacity of the oceans as a carbon sink was limited, then, Shaw said, the Exxon scientists would deliver the “bad news” to the corporation.
far7x no texto
““What happens is far beyond the work of giants,” he said.”
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Frase de exemplo“What happens is far beyond the work of giants,” he said.
scientific7x no texto
“One advert placed in the Washington Post in 2000 criticized independent researchers for putting a “political cart before the scientific horse” and using “unreliable models” that were “not yet capable of predicting Earth’s global climate.” This so incensed the U.S.”
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Frase de exemploOne advert placed in the Washington Post in 2000 criticized independent researchers for putting a “political cart before the scientific horse” and using “unreliable models” that were “not yet capable of predicting Earth’s global climate.” This so incensed the U.S.
warming7x no texto
“Department of Energy that projected global warming of up to 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the twenty-first century unless greenhouse gas emissions were reduced.”
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Frase de exemploDepartment of Energy that projected global warming of up to 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the twenty-first century unless greenhouse gas emissions were reduced.
companies6x no texto
“To the world’s largest energy companies taking the lead not in understanding the consequences of their businesses, but in arguing that there are no consequences .”
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Frase de exemploTo the world’s largest energy companies taking the lead not in understanding the consequences of their businesses, but in arguing that there are no consequences .
lit6x no texto
“The Latest Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley Catcher in the Rye "> Catcher in the Rye ">How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet Literary Hub Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Advertisers: Contact Us Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.”
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Frase de exemploThe Latest Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley Catcher in the Rye "> Catcher in the Rye ">How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet Literary Hub Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Advertisers: Contact Us Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.
pliny6x no texto
“Pliny saw in the scale of these works the portents of some future tragedy.”
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Frase de exemploPliny saw in the scale of these works the portents of some future tragedy.
emissions6x no texto
“Chamber of Commerce—an organization that spent the next decade lobbying and campaigning against any government plans to curb emissions.”
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Frase de exemploChamber of Commerce—an organization that spent the next decade lobbying and campaigning against any government plans to curb emissions.
fossil6x no texto
“Exxon effectively concluded the opposite: that the threat to its own business—and to the fossil fuel industry in general—was existential if it didn’t continue.”
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Frase de exemploExxon effectively concluded the opposite: that the threat to its own business—and to the fossil fuel industry in general—was existential if it didn’t continue.
internal6x no texto
“Over the following year Black refined his presentation for more widespread internal company distribution.”
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Frase de exemploOver the following year Black refined his presentation for more widespread internal company distribution.
energy6x no texto
“Department of Energy that projected global warming of up to 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the twenty-first century unless greenhouse gas emissions were reduced.”
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Frase de exemploDepartment of Energy that projected global warming of up to 6 degrees Celsius by the end of the twenty-first century unless greenhouse gas emissions were reduced.
chief6x no texto
“Exxon’s new chief executive, Lee Raymond, used uncertainty as a mantra in his public speeches.”
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Frase de exemploExxon’s new chief executive, Lee Raymond, used uncertainty as a mantra in his public speeches.
major5x no texto
“In 1982 a corporate document produced by the company’s environmental affairs department—circulated widely to Exxon management but marked not to be “distributed externally”—made it clear that preventing global warming “would require major reductions in fossil fuel consumption,” or “potentially catastrophic events” would begin to occur.”
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Frase de exemploIn 1982 a corporate document produced by the company’s environmental affairs department—circulated widely to Exxon management but marked not to be “distributed externally”—made it clear that preventing global warming “would require major reductions in fossil fuel consumption,” or “potentially catastrophic events” would begin to occur.
extraction5x no texto
“Certainly, the ghosts of Roman extraction have persisted.”
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Frase de exemploCertainly, the ghosts of Roman extraction have persisted.
atmospheric5x no texto
“Exxon’s science division equipped the supertanker with custom-made instruments for detecting and measuring oceanic and atmospheric CO₂.”
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Frase de exemploExxon’s science division equipped the supertanker with custom-made instruments for detecting and measuring oceanic and atmospheric CO₂.
atlantic5x no texto
“The supertanker was called the Esso Atlantic , and it belonged to the oil giant Exxon.”
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Frase de exemploThe supertanker was called the Esso Atlantic , and it belonged to the oil giant Exxon.