• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    21 hours ago

    He didn’t doubt climate change. He propagandized against it because it was in his financial interest to lie.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    As usual, the media sanewashes these people by describing them as “doubting” and being “skeptical” about climate change. He didn’t do either. He knew it was happening, and decided to hasten the mass extinction of life on Earth and the collapse of human civilization, while lying about it and persecuting anyone who spoke the truth, in order to make himself richer than anyone needs to be. And the article talks about his “fairness” and “firmness” to disguise a reality of greed, lies, and abusive management culture, all in the service of deeply destructive goals.

    • akwd169@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      2 days ago

      He did all this knowing full well he’d never be around to experience the horrors he has wrought on the planet and society

      Its disgusting

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    24 hours ago

    Live your life in such a way that everyone doesn’t celebrate your passing the way the Ewoks cheered the destruction of the Death Star.

  • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    2 days ago

    Sometimes I wish I wasn’t atheist, then I could at least believe this guy was burning in hell right now.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      You could adopt that belief in the hope that it’s true. Sort of like Pascal’s wager but for punishing your enemies. An asshole’s wager, if you will

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        He knew exactly what was going on and made the decision to hire the tobacco-cancer denial machine to confuse the public and prevent a timely shift away from fossil fuels

  • No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    2 days ago

    I’m very happy this shit bag is dead, but it sucks ass that he got to live so long and died peacefully. Hopefully more oil CEOs, and just CEOs in general, meet their demises sooner.