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Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization (fortune.com)

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“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

You might be thinking of the classic Toles cartoon

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[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Wasn't that one, but also applies. Bit sad to know there are multiple of these...

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