16 Jul '12, 3pm

The courage of folks like @billmckibben @TempestWilliams & @MichaelEMann prompted me today to call it like I see it:

The courage of folks like @billmckibben @TempestWilliams & @MichaelEMann prompted me today to call it like I see it:

With the national weather maps pinker than a Barbie® SUV , more Americans are grudgingly accepting that climate change is for real, that it's largely caused by humans, and that it's a major threat to us here and now. It's probably only a matter of time before America and the world finally start taking the problem seriously... ...and ExxonMobil and Rupert Murdoch are making sure that multinational corporations will be first in line with the solutions! The evidence? Two short quotes, and not a whole lot of inductive reasoning. Three weeks ago, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was delivering a talk on energy at the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. In answer to a question about the impacts of climate change, he said "[W]e believe those consequences are manageable... It's an engineering problem and it has engineering solutions." [source ] Then last week, on his not-quite-a...

Full article: http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/1006900-moral-failing

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