How Fossil Fuel Interests Weaponized Economists To Delay Climate Action (w/ Ben Franta)
The Climate Pod
The History of Disinformation
By the end of the 19 fifties, the oil in industry had been warned about the eventuality of globe warming from fossil fules. By 19 80 or so, there were really sophisticated internal research programs at exon. We know that within the mrian petroleum institute, they had a whole task force that was set up to monitor all the climate science that was being done outside. But this has led to sort of debate about, oh, you know, were they trying to solve climate change? And then they changed their mind later. So i think it's just another piece of information that just shows, look, this industry has been lying to people for decades,. since this became an
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