Criminalizing the Climate Crisis - It’s Time to Name Names

The mainstream media finally recognizes that the global climate crisis is an existential threat to humanity. But newspapers and news channels still refrain from pointing fingers at the chief culprits behind the rapidly escalating meltdown, namely Big Oil executives and their political puppets, who are STILL lobbying against deep climate reforms as the world burns and drowns. We know that MORE THAN FOUR DECADES have passed since Exxon managers were informed by their own scientists about fossil fuel burning's contribution to environmental catastrophe. And yet they did nothing -- or rather these executives did worse than nothing, bankrolling climate crisis denial campaigns and pliable politicians who blocked serious reform efforts. ExxonMobil, under current CEO Darren Woods, continues to lobby against legislative measures to deter environmental disaster.

So kudos to journalist (and friend) Mark Hertsgaard, who is helping lead a media effort to criminalize the powerful men who are destroying Earth. As Mark points out in this article, there is no better time than the upcoming climate summit in Glasgow in November to name these global criminals and to demand they finally be brought to justice. The climate crisis is a crime beat. A small number of corporate executives and politicians are profiting enormously from humanity's growing distress. No more.

Wanted for crimes against nature and humanity: Big Oil CEO Darren Woods