The oil industry has been shaping California since the 1800s. To keep our climate stable and habitable, we need to transition to clean energy economy. Big Oil has been working for over 50 years to sow doubt about the impact of their products – meanwhile producing detailed research on just how dangerous they are.
Sources and further reading:
Unveiling Big Oil’s Campaign of Lies, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2024
New Joint Bicameral Staff Report Reveals Big Oil’s Campaign of Climate Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak, US Senate Committee on the Budget, 2024
Merchants of Doubt (documentary), 2014
Merchants of Doubt (book), Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes, 2010
Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings, The Guardian, 2018
Climate-colored Goggles, Substack by Sammy Roth
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