▲ 716 ▼ 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) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 86 comments fedilink hide all child comments “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 Archived copies of the article: ghostarchive.org web.archive.org archive.today
[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago (4 children) Seize the assets of the shareholders and stop the oil pumps. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Gork@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not the shareholders! 😱 /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago We're all shareholders by a certain age. Do you contribute to a 401k? If so, you're a shareholder. The CEOs and corporate board members use shareholder *demands" as a convenient excuse to justify their own sociopathic insatiable need for more money they'll never spend. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Reminds me of that saying choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Their incentive is to do the job just good enough and with the least amount of effort. The shareholders incentive here is make money. So we need to make Fossil fuel business illegal. The shareholders still want to make money. They'll find an alternative way to do so. OH HEY LOOK! No longer reliant on fossil fuels? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago shock the industry so hard the stonks guys just go elsewhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gork@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not the shareholders! 😱 /s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago We're all shareholders by a certain age. Do you contribute to a 401k? If so, you're a shareholder. The CEOs and corporate board members use shareholder *demands" as a convenient excuse to justify their own sociopathic insatiable need for more money they'll never spend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago We're all shareholders by a certain age. Do you contribute to a 401k? If so, you're a shareholder. The CEOs and corporate board members use shareholder *demands" as a convenient excuse to justify their own sociopathic insatiable need for more money they'll never spend. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Reminds me of that saying choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Their incentive is to do the job just good enough and with the least amount of effort. The shareholders incentive here is make money. So we need to make Fossil fuel business illegal. The shareholders still want to make money. They'll find an alternative way to do so. OH HEY LOOK! No longer reliant on fossil fuels? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago shock the industry so hard the stonks guys just go elsewhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago shock the industry so hard the stonks guys just go elsewhere. permalink fedilink source parent