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   janhoglund (janhoglund@mastodon.nu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:03:03 JST janhoglund

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   Over four decades, Exxon paid millions of dollars to over one hundred prominent lobbying groups and think tanks that promoted climate change denial.
   —Sarah Kendzior, They Knew
   #climatechange

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     janhoglund (janhoglund@mastodon.nu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:03:05 JST janhoglund

     In 1981, ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the world, composed some fiction of its own. The story was that the toxins it released into the world were harmless and that anyone claiming otherwise was a liar. … Exxon knew that developing the Natuna site [off Indonesia] would cause and accelerate permanent damage to the earth.
     —Sarah Kendzior, They Knew
     #climatechange

     Bill repeated this.