Is California’s Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil an Inflection Point?

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Is California’s Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil an Inflection Point?
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Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island are already pursuing similar legal actions.

Oil spill cleanup workers listen as Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks about the oil spill response at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach, California, on October 11, 2021.The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates likehave so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Her evident frustration at the time should be considered significantly more consequential than it might seem. A team of Norwegian researchers hasthat, of all the emotions provoked by human-caused climate change, the one most associated with activism against it is anger. Anger at politicians or CEOs who have played key roles in enabling the phenomenon that causes such destruction animates many climate protesters.

This summer, the giant State Farm and Allstate insurance companies, ever more aware of the toll climate change was taking on their bottom lines in California, announced that they would no longer accept new customers there. As an explanation, State Farm“rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.” Take a moment to let that sink in.

In 1800, as the industrial revolution began, there were just 282 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Today, in part because of energy industry foot-dragging, there are about 420 ppm of CO2 and we’re speeding toward the 564 ppm that Cohen predicted would radically change our very biosphere. Climate scientist Michael Mann has pointed out in his new bookthat, during the Pliocene era, 3.

At last, Greta Thunberg’s hope that someone, especially someone with the power to do something, would finally get mad and connect the dots is being fulfilled. Let’s hope that California succeeds in both setting a meaningful precedent and making those companies pay in a big way, ending impunity for the most dangerous and deceitful assault on our environment in human history.is behind on our fundraising goals for the year. There are a lot of reasons why.

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