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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 00:05:25 JST Paul Cantrell

   Remember all those full-page ads from gas companies about their commitment to green energy and how BP stood for “beyond petroleum” and stuff?

   You might want to be sitting down. I have a big shocker for you. It was all a bunch of BS.

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

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     Paul Carroll (stublag@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 00:31:15 JST Paul Carroll

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     @inthehands “A Shell spokesperson said the company believes “society needs to take action on climate change””

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     Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: (tob@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 02:45:09 JST Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:

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     @inthehands If you assume the purpose of these voluntary "commitments" is as propaganda to reduce the pressure for governed regulation, then one would expect that as the prospect of government regulation becomes more certain these commitments would vanish.

     The oil companies know the jig is up. The world is on fire in exactly the way they've known it would be.

     It's hard to overstate how evil they are.