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(DIR) Post #ATuPpGyKyxiPz6DADQ by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-22T17:15:27Z
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Fossil fuel companies “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public’s attention.”Paper accepted in Harvard Environmental Law Reviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/big-oil-companies-homicide-harvard-environmental-law-review
(DIR) Post #ATuPpHjU9fQgLKGohk by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-22T17:15:29Z
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"Activists and journalists declaim the executives of ExxonMobil, Shell, and other large oil companies as 'mass murderers'", citing @KateAronoff.This is how the paper "Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Deaths" starts.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4335779
(DIR) Post #ATuPpIQjYs1YVSVM7E by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-22T17:25:07Z
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"The paper is rooted in part in the growing body of evidence fossil fuel companies knew of the harm their products caused and misled the public about them." @BenFranta ---RT @MGSchmelzerThis is great archival work! It shows that French oil giant @TotalEnergies knew about climate change as early as 1971 (!) and since the 1980s engaged in strategies of denial and delay, coordinating their attack on science internationally.https://w…https://twitter.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1450720284756090888
(DIR) Post #ATuPpIylWLFKD0QXA0 by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-22T17:39:59Z
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"The authors go so far as to recommend a particular sentence should fossil fuel firms be found guilty of homicide: restructuring them as public benefit corporations, similar to what happened to Purdue Pharma as part of its settlement for contributing to the opioid crisis."
(DIR) Post #ATuPpJh4ragwQR9vEG by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-22T17:40:00Z
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"Doing so, they argue, would allow for rapidly winding down fossil fuel production to reduce further climate harm while ramping up investments in clean energy and protecting workers and communities tied to fossil fuel companies."https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/big-oil-companies-homicide-harvard-environmental-law-review
(DIR) Post #ATuPpKFSnkCI95FNpI by MatthiasSchmelzer@mastodon.world
2023-03-23T13:01:22Z
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"A growing number of scientific studies estimate that, within the next fifty years, climate harms could become, in the words of FFC researchers themselves, “globally catastrophic,” endangering significant proportions of humanity." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4335779