An Inconvenient Truth

In the 1970s and 1980s, scientists working for Exxon, "privately predicted global warming correctly and skilfully". Company bosses, concluding that this would damage their core business, then spent decades (and enormous sums of money) publically rubbishing climate science (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research). In many other areas of activity, such greedy behaviour would be judged a crime against humanity. People have died and livelihoods destroyed, to maintain the already enormous profits of a major corporation. If work had started to reduce or even to just to minimise the release of 'greenhouse gases' in the 1970s, climate change wouldn't be so much of an existential problem. Companies, like Exxon, should have to pay to help mitigate its effects.