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| author | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-08-04 15:43:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-08-04 15:43:07 +0100 |
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chp1: mention exxon knew about climate change first
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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 99e7b36..aac0c4c 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -157,14 +157,17 @@ science, but our political leaders didn't listen' [@no-one-is-too-small, p. 134] However, there's no particular reason to think that the fossil fuel industry is irrational or unscientific. In fact, fossil fuel companies are some of the -world's most scientifically capable organisations. Fossil fuel extraction makes -intensive use of technological and scientific resources, from the geological -surveying needed to identify reserves to the hydraulic engineering needed to -pump gas and oil from underground or subsea reservoirs. Despite these -technological and scientific challenges, fossil fuel companies rank among the world's -profitable. Adding together the most recent annual profits from the five largest -state-owned fossil fuel companies and the five largest public fossil fuel -companies produces a number well over $500 billion [@energy-profits-jun-25]. +world's most scientifically capable organisations. Scientists at ExxonMobil were +among the first to understand the causal link between climate change and fossil +fuel combustion as a result of pioneering research in the 1970s [@supran-2023]. +Fossil fuel extraction itself makes intensive use of technological and scientific +resources, from the geological surveying needed to identify reserves to the +hydraulic engineering needed to pump gas and oil from underground or subsea +reservoirs. Despite these technological and scientific challenges, fossil fuel +companies rank among the world's profitable. Adding together the most recent +annual profits from the five largest state-owned fossil fuel companies and the +five largest public fossil fuel companies produces a number well over $500 +billion [@energy-profits-jun-25]. Even the production of so-called 'fake science' can be seen as the result of the fossil fuel industry acting rationally on the basis of the scientific evidence. |