The species are tethered to a political economic system that leads to their own destruction. Profits before people can only end one way. Perhaps the next time around (hundreds of thousands maybe millions of years from now) there will exist in the deep memory of the descendants of the remnants of the current species, that greed is NOT good. They wouldn’t know why this paradigm was passed on from generation to generation over millennia, but hopefully they will stick to the paradigm and avoid the tragedy of their distant ancestors.
@@Red-Brick-Dream Wow. Maybe if you and your counterparts on the "left" would stop being such partisan hacks, you would realize that the DNC and GOP are two sides of the same coin.
Because people literally don’t care anymore. It’s sad. They’ve already made peace with a world where pos like this ruin our planet for money because it doesn’t inconvenience their daily life.
"Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? YES" "Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? YES" "But there's nothing illegal about that." Why I don't allow my sense of morality to be dictated by the law.
Uh... There's no law against those actions, but there's absolutely no law *enforcing* those specific actions. The issue is the absence of laws forbidding those actions, not the existence of laws in general. Your conclusion is flawed. Let me remind you, there are laws against defamation, theft, rape, pedophilia, murder. If you say you don't allow your sense of morality to be dictated by the law, you are saying you agree with those things, and with anything that laws explicitly forbid. See the problem?
@@MariaMartinez-researcher That is improper logic. Simply because A does not encompass B, that does not mean B does not encompass A. In this case, A would be the law and B would be morals. Original comment claimed that the law does not encompass the entirety of their morals. This does not mean that everything stated in the law cannot also be encompassed by their morals. Watch out for logical fallacies! They’re everywhere!
@@MariaMartinez-researcher your comment doesn't even begin to make logical sense. "You said the laws don't dictate your morality therefore you're saying you think everything illegal is moral" Not even close
While I think it's shitty big companies can give money to politicians, and yes I feel that needs to stop, Exxon isn't destroying the future. We, as a species, will survive this crisis but only if we work together and create peace and unity. Not division and hatred.
Corporations are actually legally required to serve shareholders by maximizing profits. Thats who they are beholden to and nobody else. All corporations must die. Preferably a painful death.
@@amandap9332 that is an issue with our system. A lot of the corruption and greed stems from their legal obligation to do whatever it takes to maximize profit
It is illegal in a lot of countries. There are limits on campaign advertisment spending, single donation limits, open competitive biddings for contract, knowingly disinformation etc etc. Our ex-finance minister just went to jail (minimum 3 years without parole for pulling strings that a friend of him gets a contract) and the next politician is already before the judge because he got honey-trapped by acceping offers while they filmed him ...
Exactly. Biden also LOVES Munchkin. They never did anything to replace him, because they WANT him as a roadblock to progressive policies. Biden is as corrupt as Trump. There is no difference. He just used better words in the past. Now he looses even them.
@gkelectrical1 divide and conquer. It only benefits them to create seperate classes, encourage racism, and homophobia...and Ameicans fall into that trap everyday. To think religious leaders are not taking money from these places too would be laughable. They are invested in our complacency.
It's not enough to change individual politicians because the next ones are incentivised to be just as corrupt (non-corrupt ones will have less money behind their election campaigns). This is all a logical consequence of a capitalist economic system; Corporate profit maximisation is more important than anything else and will infect more and more of our lives. We need to smash the machine before it destroys us.
Great reporting. Guys like this are the worst kind of sociopaths. And our sick economic system rewards them handsomely. If we let this carry on, we are truly f-ed. Time to rebel against this broken system.
@@thiagov6123 Yes, colonial imperialism driven by capitalism. That's the one. And I can criticise it even if I happen to have benefited from it because it's objectively awful.
We don't even recognize evil, because it's in all of us and we tend to make the same excuses for us then we make for them, because we don't understand how little is needed to make us evil. It really didn't take much to allow the holocaust to happen. Most germans didn't have to kill anyone. No, they just looked away and didn't do the hard work that would have been necessary to combat evil. A lot of people made excuses "well, i was just following orders! I'm not responsible but the person, who gave the orders is responsible!". Of course the guy, who gave the orders says the same thing: "I'm just following the orders of this other guy. I'm not responsible" or "you can't expect me to make such big sacrifices just for doing the right thing, while others do nothing!" Climate change is very similar. The evil we all do isn't easy to recnognize. And often we don't want to recognize it. We are fully aware that since we're all using oil, we're all responsible for global warming. This makes us feel good in not doing anything, because everyone else is doing it too. Except that it's of course not true. While we're all using oil (not possible yet not to use it) some of us are actively fighting for the change we need, while others are doing nothing or even fight the change by spreading misinformation. Maybe McCoy still feels that he isn't evil. After all he's just looking out for those poor shareholers. Watch the "psychology of evil" by Philip Zimbardo, if you still don't know what i'm talking about.
@@stauffap What you left out was the lack of alternatives promulgated by the very entities that profit from that lack of opportunity; we are a captive and altogether propagandized consumer audience.
@@paulmccarter908 Not sure what you're talking about. But we've known how to construct a CO2 neutral energy system for over a decade now with existing technologies and at long term costs that are comparable to today. So there are cost effective alterantives to fossil fuels. We just chose not to use them and many people don't even know about them because of the misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry. If you want solutions for global warming then you only have to read the scientific literature. It's literatally that easy. It almost seesm too good to be true because it's that easy. But of course the people don't know about the simple solutions because of this disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades now. The media and politicians alike are not telling us what's in the scientific literature.
@@stauffap apathy is the greatest enabler of evil. Too many of us really don’t care enough to save ourselves or our posterity. Few are willing to make the sacrifice for the good of humanity. And apathy is what the greed driven power hungry cohort among us depend upon to push through their mindless grab for more wealth and comfort and the expense of everyone. And so, we suffer what we must.
I've been saying it for DECADES: "no matter how illegal, immoral, exploitive, or just plain wrong something is...if there's MONEY in it, SOMEONE's going to do it."
Would be nice to see the complete, unedited footage of the interview. Even if it's mostly boring, and includes the initial manipulation of the interviewee which might make him a sympathetic figure. What matters is that he's telling the truth after all.
Children have been murdered and abused by "parents' for decades. Who cared about that? The "family" system for many has been Climate Destroyed decades ago
@@AprilWatters Are you fucking daft? Making such a blanket statement and being wrong trying to downplay the verifiable fact that these oil execs are knowingly harming the world.
*this entire industry Don't do the cliché "shifting a societal issue onto a single scapegoat" thing please, every fucking investor in this industry is the embodiment of pure sociopathic greed.
This is why the British Government are privitising Channel 4. Good investigative journalism, which exposes all the dodgy dealing that goes on to maximise profit and manipulate legislation, at the expense of the ordinary working person. Much better to privatise them and have them produce mindless clickbait instead.
The lobbyists own anyone that is able to get past a primary election so there is a fat chance of any positive change ever happening from the government. well anything short of a complete ban of corporate lobbying and the complete dismantling of the 2 party primary system that is.
If the defense of something you do or did boils down to "technically, not illegal" you are in fact doing evil things. Please do not measure your morality and your impact on the world around you exclusively on the basis of lawful behavior. Sometimes the law is wrong.
Democrats should have done something about this ten years ago when they had 60 votes. Now they can barely pass some watered down bill thst will just make sure highways and bridges don’t collapse. They better pass a climate bill through reconciliation after they do this roads and bridges bill.
electric vehicles are not equitable and still have massive carbon footprints, Telsa now has to import metal 7,000 miles from the goro mine in new caledonia using cargo ships running on oil.
@@Lildizzle420 the previous comment said nothing about them being equitable, but simply that the are not more dangerous. However ICE cars still require metal imported, they also ship far more cargo since the cars are assembled in other countries and then shipped to be sold.The irony is using the term carbon footprint, which itself was coined by a marketing company paid for by BP.
@@JarredSutherland I don't know why you made such an obvious observation about what's being said here, why is it relevant who coined the term "carbon footprint"
Also look at what is by far their biggest success story in Nuclear energy's bad reputation sure it is far from perfect but the evidence shows its actually the safest energy source overall in part because the higher energy density. The hypocrisy is even worse because the extraction of hydrocarbons from the bottom of salt domes brings up large quantities of concentrated heavy radioactive salts which ironically means the fossil fuel industry has "produced" more radioactive waste than every nuclear power plant combined. lobbying and disinformation combined are a terrifying force of evil.
@@Dragrath1 nuclear is the most regulated in the world and only produces 10% of global energy. right now we nuclear incidents in Hanford, Taishan, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. this is an era of unregulated nuclear energy, you're about to see how "safe" it really is
We need more of this journalism. Thank you. I am sharing this with as many Arizona voters as I can. Kyrsten Sinema no longer represents those who’ve elected her; she has lied to us and no longer deserves to remain in Congress.
I didn't hear about this in the news at all. Thank you. We all knew this was happening at some level, but this is disgusting. F the fossil fuel industry.
What I never understand is how can so many supposedly smart people put the value corporate assets above the needs of the environment. What would these assets be worth after a total climate collapse? The modern corporate culture of greed and short termism has a lot to answer for
You assume they’re smart? Perhaps you should reconsider how you assess intelligence, and try and de-link that concept of intelligence from the dominant narrative of the culture. You might find that those you consider smart may not be so. And those you ignore as such may well turn out to be.
@@gkelectrical1 Well if you're talking about woke capitalism, companies co-opt a lot of left leaning ideas such as intersectionality for their own image. Ben and Jerries might preach for black lives matter on twitter, but their parent company is known for human rights abuses abroad and exploiting global southern countries.
@@gkelectrical1 they are. Don’t even pretend that they don’t encourage this. We have people eating each other alive on Twitter over gender politics when this is the real issue. The big companies may get dragged into it and they just throw out the standards, put the colours on their logo, say Black Lives Matter. Job done, that will satisfy the frothing masses. Now we can get back to what we really want to do. Making money however we can.
i hope people understand while this is a left problem, this was originally a right problem as well. the right politicians LOVED, absolutely LOVED oil money so right wing politics dominated. Now that big tech has surpassed the wealth of the oil industries, they'll adopt left wing politics....without the worker policies because unlike gender politics, it costs companies' money. The only difference with our government was WHICH corporations are in charge. People who think left is the only evil are as just as a problem as those who think right is the only evil. Two sides of the same coin. There is no "lesser evil".
Good on Channel 4 for making this report. If you google articles related to this you'll find few major news organisations that even cover the story and the ones who do omit large parts of the conversation with McCoy (the Exxon rep. in the video). Honestly, can anyone explain to me what positive benefits (if there are any) lobbying actually provides in a democracy?
Right here. This is the MOST important journalism of our time. We MUST vote out of Congress ANY senator that allows Exxon to use them as a tool to spread their blatant lies (which we already knew, but here is self-admitted). **This is the #1 issue**. We KNOW we are headed for catastrophe if we don't take action. And we CAN take action. Please. Call and email the Senators on this list, and if they don't vow to change, vote and campaign against them. And share this video!
This video needs MILLIONS of views. People need to know this. I was under the impression Mark Kelly was very progressive, this is a real slap in the face.
Exxon said his statements (the guy whose job is it to represent company beliefs) do not represent the beliefs on the company and he still has his job. Nothing changed.
Do these people not have kids? Grandkids? And they just plain don’t care if their home is on fire.. I would genuinely like to understand this guys justification for knowingly, massively contributing to the irreversible destruction of the planet he’s standing on.
Their paychecks are more important than their kids and grandkids. It works via cognitive dissonance - he knows he earns a living by contributing to the annihilation of his planet, but that's too troubling of a thought, so he blocks it out of his mind and replaces it with a fantasy that global warming is a false alarm.
Ok. Are there any Americans here absolutely pissed off of two major points: 1) The utter failure of our "leaders" to do the right thing when an environment crisis is only years away? 2) It took a British journalist to reveal this failure
Radha I hope you can appreciate he need to say that to get elected...especially in states like PA. I'm so happy he did too. Another 4 years of Trump would have obliterated the climate and our country. It's a complicated world.
@@brseeger1 Except that he did'nt say it to just get elected, he meant it. It was President Obama after all that was crowned "The King of Fracking" this people care about the environment in superficial ways like banning plastic bags and plastic straws, but not at the core of the issue, because as is evident in this vide THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS!
@@brseeger1 What would the world be like if we had no climate(s)? What would the world be like if there were no USA? AOC says that the world as we know it is ending in less than 10 years. We won't need any climate(s) or even the USA then !!!!!! The insects will take over and the Earth will be better off !!!!!!! THAT'S EVOLUTION !!!!!!!!!!!
What this means is what the American voters want, or demand is not relevant to governmental policy passed through legislation and in many instances neither political party can be depended on to do anything for the benefit of the nation as a whole, in fact the possibility of the very land we live on becoming uninhabitable doesn't matter. It seems short term profit is all that matters and the environment and the citizenry be damned. I suppose when it gets so bad they will simply establish an authoritarian state upon those that survive while all these investors and the politicians who are naught but their whores will go and create their own living spaces in the parts of the world not yet totally diminished by Climate Change. Eventually I'm sure they think they can seek refuge off planet where they will dictate their expectations to those down below. And this will be true all across they globe because this Fascism for profit seems to be a global position of the avaricious classes.
What "the people" want is irrelevant. That said, 75% of 'Muricans don't know or care about anything which doesn't affect their hamberders or sportsball. www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained
Unsurprisingly, this guy is still working in the same job. Despite Exxon saying he was lying and doesn't represent Exxon, even though his job is representing Exxon. These companies need to be held responsible for their bullshit.
Now oil lobbies are refusing to increase production to drop prices on the grounds that they don't have the leases while they sit on enough leases to drill unfettered for the next 20 years. At the same exact time they're making record breaking profits and buying new leases.
How can your defense for doing something reprehensible be "there's nothing illegal about that" when you're the one determining what the laws even are??
Ok so I think its important we recognize the tactics he's using. "Limiting emissions on oil refineries in an infrastructure bill is absurd" i mean... it kind of is. It's something that needs to happen, sure, but it is kinda unrelated to the core subject of the bill. both parties shoehorn unrelated stuff into bills like this. And so knowing the other side is aware of that, it makes it that much easier to catch these congressmen. It just goes to show you how interlinked all these issues are. The entire system is fucked.
The guy from Exxon truly believes that they didn't do anything wrong because it was legal and they were defending the interests of their investors. This is what unregulated capitalism creates: the false belief that the greater good is to be able to accumulate money at all costs.
Way to go Greenpeace! Here's our dirt on Manchin and Synema. Tester is no surprise to me and he only represents 1 million people. There's 3 x that in my county alone! Well done BBC!
