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California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception
(www.nytimes.com)
God that image is depressing
This makes total sense. California was financially harmed by these oil companies, and they did it knowingly. They should pay for all the damage then.
The ones in charge during that time deserve to be behind bars, putting their profits before the lives of future generations
Good for California. I strongly suspect the Supreme Court will throw this out, and even if the oil firms have to pay the cash will disappear into California's corrupt bureaucracy instead of being used for anything useful...
... but people need to know how badly the oil companies betrayed the Earth and the human race in pursuit of profit. They are directly or indirectly responsible for millions, if not billions, of deaths in every country in every continent in the world. They have committed acts of war against every nation on the planet. They have committed not only genocide but ecocide.
And this, if nothing else, gets the message out.
State of California, I'll hand you this:
That's the most recent piece of a big chunk of documents which have come out during earlier lawsuits over the past ten or twelve years. The Drilled Podcast has been chronicling the whole thing in detail.
Paywall-bypass to the WSJ article that The Guardian is describing
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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