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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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[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 70 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If its too late then it's time for retaliation against those who put us in this mess in the first place.

This guy belongs in jail.

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[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

My first thought was this Onion article.

https://www.theonion.com/last-ditch-climate-change-report-provides-locations-of-1835244382