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California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception (www.nytimes.com)
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For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.

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[-] rastilin@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

This makes total sense. California was financially harmed by these oil companies, and they did it knowingly. They should pay for all the damage then.

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