It's the most outrageously cyberpunkish thing I read this week and despite my love for the genre I must admit that living it is less fun than reading it.
So the TL;DR is a pair of activist investors have been submitting the same or similar proposals around carbon emission reduction repeatedly for years and Exxon is alleging that this is in violation of SEC rules about how often the same proposal can be filed and seeking enforcement.
While he's more than likely morally and ethically bankrupt and manipulating the situation, he's technically not wrong with placing some blame on the public. I think last I saw, 40% of people still didn't believe climate change was impacting them. A good chunk don't believe in climate change at all. The average Joe/Jane is still buying gas-guzzling vehicles.
Sure, if we were all not easily programmed meat machines, who don't live in a world where $ = speech = programming, then we would all be equally to blame.
Meanwhile some people are gluing themselves to roads in desperate protest, and we make fun of them because they are inconvenient.
It my very well be possible that its not currently impacting them in any meaningful way. Its one of those things that you can ignore until you can't. It still is a step in the right direction cuz at least people don't really flat out deny it's happening anymore, just debate how much we should care.
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[ 56.7 ms ] story [ 3008 ms ] threadOne of these is not like the others.
May pessimistic take is: We all better pray “market forces” deal with this problem because that’s the only way carbon emissions will end.
> Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-...
Meanwhile some people are gluing themselves to roads in desperate protest, and we make fun of them because they are inconvenient.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554369
In a sense, then, the investors are suing themselves.