Big oil preserving their power, subsidies, and social license

December 29, 2022 5:15 PM

The House Oversight Committee's hearings on climate disinformation: Backtracking on promises to release subpoenaed industry documents. Industry bullying of reporters like Hiroko Tabuchi. "The [oil] industry wants to see so much government funding for carbon capture locked in that there’s no choice but to continue down that path." (recall the Juice Media's CCS episode) From Amy Westervelt of Drilled.
posted by jeffburdges (8 comments total)

Carbon capture is advanced Earth fuckery. We live in an earthquake prone area, and way too close to the San Andreas Fault, to pressurize the ground, so big oil can keep on keeping on.
posted by Oyéah at 6:05 PM on December 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

Carbon capture and storage is thermodynamic nonsense. Absolute nonsense.
posted by sjswitzer at 6:18 PM on December 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

I really, really REALLY encourage everyone to put some effort into organizing locally on climate stuff- talk to people in your local networks about this stuff, call your state legislators, get your friends to call your state legislators, and get their friends to call state legislators. Do it every week.

The next decade is absolutely crucial, and we cannot waste time with this dumb tomfoolery.
posted by wowenthusiast at 6:42 PM on December 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

CCS is like hydrogen and similar non-solutions that generate endless government grants to never solve the problem while rewarding the very people who are creating the problem to “research” solutions forever.
posted by sjswitzer at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

You want to capture carbon?
Grow a peat bog
posted by Rev. Irreverent Revenant at 3:35 AM on December 30, 2022 [5 favorites]

Westervelt's Reporting (available in her podcasts Drilled, Rigged and Damages) is f-ing damning. The seasons are 8-10 tightly made episodes, well sourced.

The fossil disinformation and political sabotage of human survival will kill more people than facism and communism did in the 20th century. I can't even think of words to describe the evil.

Find the others
Vote, donate, call,petition
Educate, Organize, fight back
Protest, obstruct, boycott and strike
disinvest, decarbonize, reduce, reuse

And learn how to make guilotines.
posted by anecdotal_grand_theory at 1:56 PM on December 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

We should also raise awareness about the depth of the disinformation among the political and military classes in vulnerable countries, like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Iran, etc.

One should bring more than some wooden boards to a fight between nations. That said, The Guillotine by The Coup ;)
posted by jeffburdges at 3:03 PM on December 30, 2022

The Mordor Economy (Nate Hagens)
posted by jeffburdges at 11:54 AM on January 29, 2023