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“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune

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[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Far be it from me to tell a Lemmy mob not to eat an oil exec, but wow that's not even close to what the article says.

“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution, and make it more available and more affordable so that you can begin the [clean energy] transition.”

As per the article, this exec is saying the exact opposite of "it's too late to transition to clean energy so we might as well not bother." He's saying "it's taking too long because it's too expensive, so we need to focus on making it cheaper so we can get there faster."

Is he lying about wanting to hasten the transition to clean energy? Maybe.

Are there other reasons that he is a fiend that must be eaten by the working class? Likely. Article hints at some of them.

But wow this take is off base. These guys do a good enough job making themselves look bad, we don't have to also make stuff up.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean he also blames the people using electricity and says they need to pay more to cover the carbon offset costs which sounds a lot like he's looking for an excuse to raise prices and push governmental fees on consumers more directly in this same speech.

I read through the article and think him saying it's too late is like the barely visible take when he's flashing a neon sign of "I'm not cutting down production and you fuckers are gonna pay for it!" And blaming governments for not wanting to pay for company infrastructure changes is hilarious when they lobby to make it so there is no more government insight anywhere else but covering the costs they don't want to pay.

He's definitely on the list but yeah title and thing OP tried to pull from this is so not the worst part of it.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, exactly-- There's plenty of oil exec bullshit right there in the article, but I was surprised to learn that he was actually talking about clean energy as an important thing to hurry toward, and investing large sums in carbon capture and stuff. A far cry from cartoonish climate denialism and trying to stop decarbonization.

I saw another post on the same article that had a title like "oil exec tells the public that it's their responsibility to foot the bill for clean energy..." And while I think that's lacking a little nuance, it's at least one area (of several!) that represents an actual claim that deserves criticism.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What a cunt. Is it too early to waterboard him with frack juice?

[–] Dippy 5 points 10 months ago

It's to early to waterboard him, but it's not too late to hang him

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Seize the assets of the shareholders and stop the oil pumps.

[–] Penguincoder 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of that saying choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Their incentive is to do the job just good enough and with the least amount of effort. The shareholders incentive here is make money. So we need to make Fossil fuel business illegal. The shareholders still want to make money. They'll find an alternative way to do so. OH HEY LOOK! No longer reliant on fossil fuels?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

shock the industry so hard the stonks guys just go elsewhere.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Not the shareholders! 😱

/s

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

So the implication here is that we should just continue to die? Lmao these fucks.

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there recently an article from TheOnion or such that said this exact thing? Wild how little fucks these monsters give about anyone but themselves.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Wasn't that one, but also applies. Bit sad to know there are multiple of these...

[–] Syo@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Denied, Delayed, Disinformed successfully!

CEO, "Now, board of directors, how much bonus are you paying me."

[–] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

"Does anyone want to step up to pay?" No, I was thinking we could just tax the shit out of rich assholes like this empty suit and use that money.

[–] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

If anyone wanted a proof that environmental pessimism is only helping the oligarchs, there you fucking go

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

It is never too late, don't give up. The earth without humans is generally slightly carbon negative, and there are cheap things to do that can encourage that - it will take 1000 years to undo things, but we can do it. Step 1 is becoming carbon neutral, and with wind/solar power that is easy for the majority of emitters.

[–] corymbia@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

“Yeah, just shut the fuck up and give more money, you whining little shits. I’ve got a survival bunker to build. They aren’t cheap you know. “

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

It certainly isn't too late for that "human" to feel the warmth of a rope around its neck.

[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

THERE WAS A MEME ABOUT THIS RECENTLY!!! THERE WAS A MEME!!

It was a few panels, but nearly said exactly the same thing as title.

it was different than the 1 image already posted here.

[–] gaael 2 points 10 months ago

When are these murderers gonna go to jail ?

[–] JoeCoT@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, so we've finally hit the end point of The Slow Breakup

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

"ohhh, sorry, the correct answer was last Wednesday."

[–] Pot8o@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

To the people talking of guillotines and woodchippers, I think what you're really looking for is the Brazen Bull of Phalaris. So appropriate on so many levels.

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

It's too late for him and his family and everyone who's ever shared a table with him or has his private phone number to continue existing with the same number of limbs and sensory organs too.