We used to. Remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill? The BP oil disaster in the gulf.
Those weren’t climate events. Those were directly tied to the company.
Also, name the great depressions/recessions after the one most responsible - The great trump depression.
A bit like how destitute improvised slums were called Hoovervilles?
If It own are toxic waste dump site, am I allowed to name it the Trump Dump? I’m not using the name from his “Brand,” but I’m naming it after a US president. Or is his side hustle going to send me a cease and desist letter?
Regardless of the legality of it, he’s 100% going to take you to court and try to bury you in legal fees. One of the few things dude can actually manage to do is weaponize the legal system.
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Not a bad idea. In the 1st Great Depression the homeless tents/settlements were called “Hoovervilles.”
I’ve been in a great Trump depression for a long, long time now…
Need a alphabetical list of names like hurricanes.
Amoco BP Chevron …
H-h-h-h-h-HOLY SHIT. Sorry had to use a Unreal Tournament quote because that’s insane.
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Name them after the oil execs. “In tonight’s new the death toll climbs to 11,000 in the Darren Woods heat event…”
I urge everyone to go to the MET website and cast v their votes
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
I would worry it would make some of them weirdly proud and they would hope for the hi-score.
We’d run out of them rather quickly.
We’d need some kind of name variant system, hopefully more interesting than ‘Saudi Aramco the 147th’.
Could also use their pre-merger names, from when our environment was being destroyed by more than a handful of global mega-corps. Tropical storm Exxon AND hurricane Mobil
We’d run out of them rather quickly.
We could also add on the CEOs, the companies the co-conspirators, the lobbying groups, the politicians, etc.
It’s fine to run out I think. When someone talks about the Shell or BP heatwave and someone else needs ask which one, it gets the point across even more that these companies are responsible.
Problem is singling any one of them out is grounds for defamation.
Is it defamation if it’s true? In a podcast about serial killers, it isn’t considered defamation either if an episode is about one specific serial killer, right?
It would be fun to see them take it to court and the judge rule against them. Assuming it wasn’t done American judge they’d bought of course.
I’ve seen the idea before. You don’t single one out, you do though the alphabet like they do with storm names. There’s plenty of companies to choose from at each letter so you can do different ones different years.
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of devastating heatwaves to go around
If we’re talking about society-wide paradigm shifts, may I suggest we try putting executives in prison first?
or voting Green in most countries eg Australia, NZ, Germany, UK, Canada for example to move the overton window and get systemic policy change
We could name all extreme weather events after them. Hurricane Exxon, Cyclone Aramco, Storm BP.
We did this on Mastodon! Met office or something put out a form to submit names for a storm or summat and someone recommended suggesting names like Aramco and BP and a bunch of us did it. I don’t know if it got traction elsewhere, I live under a rock.
Or be more accurate and blame Shell and BP for your problems
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You’d think so, but the grandparent argues that it would be more accurate for Europeans to blame European Shell and BP for their heatwaves, rather than American Chevron.
Do they not understand that greenhouse gas emissions spread out through the entire atmosphere?
I think we’ll be able to go through them all, unfortunately.
what a great idea
