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“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If its too late then it's time for retaliation against those who put us in this mess in the first place.

This guy belongs in jail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The guy belongs drawn and quartered

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[–] TheGiantKorean 64 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We've already blown a tire, so we might as well slash the other four, right? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Getting the spare as well just to be certain?

[–] TheGiantKorean 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol you caught that. I no count so good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I no count so good.

A lot of newer cars don't have spares, which could be seen as another grim element to the metaphor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

We've...

...said the Exon exec after they slashed your tire.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (26 children)

Far be it from me to tell a Lemmy mob not to eat an oil exec, but wow that's not even close to what the article says.

“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution, and make it more available and more affordable so that you can begin the [clean energy] transition.”

As per the article, this exec is saying the exact opposite of "it's too late to transition to clean energy so we might as well not bother." He's saying "it's taking too long because it's too expensive, so we need to focus on making it cheaper so we can get there faster."

Is he lying about wanting to hasten the transition to clean energy? Maybe.

Are there other reasons that he is a fiend that must be eaten by the working class? Likely. Article hints at some of them.

But wow this take is off base. These guys do a good enough job making themselves look bad, we don't have to also make stuff up.

[–] Cris_Color 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate you doing the work to add more context for folks who didn't read the article (myself included 😅)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Lol, thanks. Sometimes I'm the one skimming the comments and skipping the article, so I'm glad I cold be helpful this time. I was expecting to get downvoted to hell based on the rest of the comments, but I'm happy to see that the response has been mostly positive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean he also blames the people using electricity and says they need to pay more to cover the carbon offset costs which sounds a lot like he's looking for an excuse to raise prices and push governmental fees on consumers more directly in this same speech.

I read through the article and think him saying it's too late is like the barely visible take when he's flashing a neon sign of "I'm not cutting down production and you fuckers are gonna pay for it!" And blaming governments for not wanting to pay for company infrastructure changes is hilarious when they lobby to make it so there is no more government insight anywhere else but covering the costs they don't want to pay.

He's definitely on the list but yeah title and thing OP tried to pull from this is so not the worst part of it.

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[–] Mannimarco 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Guess it's never too late to put these fuckers up against a wall

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What a cunt. Is it too early to waterboard him with frack juice?

[–] supercriticalcheese 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's too late, guillotine instead

[–] HauntedCupcake 7 points 9 months ago

Hey hey, slow down. There's a healthy middle ground. We could waterboard him whilst he's in the guillotine, then when he's begging for air we release him head first

[–] homesweethomeMrL 34 points 9 months ago

Man if there's one person who's opinion I respect on climate change, it's definitely the CEO of Exxon-Mobil.

[–] Daft_ish 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I know the first mother fucker I'm eating.

Seriously, this guy is looking awfully tasty.

[–] arin 15 points 9 months ago

I'm just gonna use him to fuel the fire to cook real food tbh

[–] DannyMac 10 points 9 months ago

I'll polish up the guillotine!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

So the implication here is that we should just continue to die? Lmao these fucks.

[–] ArtVandelay 28 points 9 months ago

"too early, too late, whatever as long as now is not the right time that's all I care about"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seize the assets of the shareholders and stop the oil pumps.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not the shareholders! 😱

/s

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[–] PoliticalAgitator 20 points 9 months ago

This has been "Climate Change Denial 2.0" for years now. Realistically, it's nothing more than a neoliberal dogwhistle to signal "I'm on board for killing everyone if it's profitable".

[–] Anticorp 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ha! I just saw a post from someone here on Lemmy last week saying this is what they'll do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

There are actually books already written about how the PR folks the executives hire have been doing this for several years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there recently an article from TheOnion or such that said this exact thing? Wild how little fucks these monsters give about anyone but themselves.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] lettruthout 10 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Denied, Delayed, Disinformed successfully!

CEO, "Now, board of directors, how much bonus are you paying me."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

If anyone wanted a proof that environmental pessimism is only helping the oligarchs, there you fucking go

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is never too late, don't give up. The earth without humans is generally slightly carbon negative, and there are cheap things to do that can encourage that - it will take 1000 years to undo things, but we can do it. Step 1 is becoming carbon neutral, and with wind/solar power that is easy for the majority of emitters.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

"Does anyone want to step up to pay?" No, I was thinking we could just tax the shit out of rich assholes like this empty suit and use that money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

"ohhh, sorry, the correct answer was last Wednesday."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To the people talking of guillotines and woodchippers, I think what you're really looking for is the Brazen Bull of Phalaris. So appropriate on so many levels.

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