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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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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 · 8 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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The guy belongs drawn and quartered
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  Nah, I think he’ll have lots of fun in a 2x2 jail cell with unhealthy doses of CO2 and CO for the rest of his life.
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    Until he gets Epstein’d to a private island

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