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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago

Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization

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Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago

Exxon Mobil CEO on the 'dirty secret' of Net Zero: 'People who are generating the emissions need to be aware ... and pay the price'

"The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to cost and who's willing to pay for it," Darren Woods said on Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast.

“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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Yeah… And I mean, that’s correct in a sense-- Cheap energy is good. It’s just not the only factor.

Like cheap food is great too, but you might end up in a bad place if your nutrition strategy is just “spend as little as possible.”

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