Glad I only buy gas from local stations. They’re not contributing at all.
Who buys Shell products?
Ah yes men with devices for sounds resembling gastrointestinal movement…
also holy necrobump
Who has for decades supressed the true extend of the damage being done and made sure there where no alternatives?
Who votes/voted against taking at least some regulatory/industrial action (in the US)? Who voted for politicians who de-neutralised and split the US news landscape?
Pretending lobbying isn’t a thing
Your uncle, your sister, and all your neighbors.
They have been the worlds largest company. So it’s more or less everyone
It’s not me? Ah good, so I don’t have to quit being Shell’s CEO :)
I don’t think anything positive would be accomplished by taking all of the companies’ money and arresting their executives. Arresting the executives won’t do anything because they would just hire new executives. If you bankrupt the companies, other companies will emerge to take their place, so long as there is a demand for the product.
And those companies, with the right laws on the books, would hopefully think twice about breaking said laws for fear of their executives going to jail.
Potential executives would think twice about joining companies that might be prone to being sent to jail.
This example always gets brought up, that people will just replace them, but they won’t if we de-incentive it and continue to enforce it. You can’t stop murder, but you can make it easier to catch murderers and place enough consequences that the average person doesn’t feel inclined to commit it. Sure, then there’s career criminals, there’s people who would see that punishment and still go for it, but note that the number would be drastically reduced than if we just let them continue on unimpeded.
Induced Demand exists and fossil infrastructure keeps nominal cost down, while externalising fossil impact.
Big Fossil must pay, consumers must pay (those who can’t switch must be helped) because climate costs will appear anyways and they must be paid to keep civilisation afloat eventually.
Fossil fuel that is too cheap is a regulatory issue of internalising true costs of burning fossil fuels.
Lemmy refuses to understand that ignoring the climate change is the most democratically chosen policy on earth.
Everyone and their dog are driving places every day instead of cycling or taking a bus. And it’s not because those options don’t exist. It’s because driving is convenient.
In most developing countries 70-80% of the population will be against gasoline engine being outright banned. And yet lemmy keeps thinking it’s big oil that is the problem.
Delusional kids thinking they’re communist.
If we spent as much on public transport as we do subsidising the oil-based status quo, public transport would be convenient too.
Vote for parties that would implement this. Convince your friends and relatives too. Otherwise, what are you talking about? People like cars. Between two candidates where one says “gas will be expensive but I’ll let double the frequency of all buses” and the one saying “fuck buses, but gas prices will go down” which one do you think will win?
it was actually me… I used a plastic straw the other day… I’m sorry guys
Why would you use plastic straws, metal straws are superior
I’m calling Trudeau on you >:(
Spoiler alert: if you drive a car and buy gas from one of these companies…
You’d have to look at historical emissions to get a really clear picture.
Total hiding somewhere
Alright, let’s see their shareholders.
How are they measuring the emissions? Where does this data come from?
Oil companies: “It’S nOt Us! If YoU dIdN’t BuY tHe OiL tHeN wE WoUlDnT sElL iT!”
(Politician introduces bill to cut emissions and reduce oil usage)
Oil Companies: “REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Not like that!! Quick, fund Republicans and anti-climate change “science” we can’t have them switching to anything else!!”
Government: it’s illegal not to own a car.
