Timely, in the light of the current debate about climate change and the Al Gore movie showing around Australia, George Monbiot in The Guardian [reproduced in The Age] writes:
"The campaign of dissuasion about the science of climate change funded by ExxonMobil and the tobacco company Philip Morris has been devastatingly effective.
By insisting that man-made global warming is either a "myth" or not worth tackling, it has given the media and politicians the excuses for inaction they wanted.
Partly as a result, in the US at least, these companies have helped to delay attempts to tackle the world's most important problem by a decade or more. Should we not confront this?"
Read the complete piece here. Clearly the darker side of these multinationals must not only be exposed but resisted.
"The campaign of dissuasion about the science of climate change funded by ExxonMobil and the tobacco company Philip Morris has been devastatingly effective.
By insisting that man-made global warming is either a "myth" or not worth tackling, it has given the media and politicians the excuses for inaction they wanted.
Partly as a result, in the US at least, these companies have helped to delay attempts to tackle the world's most important problem by a decade or more. Should we not confront this?"
Read the complete piece here. Clearly the darker side of these multinationals must not only be exposed but resisted.
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