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The pollutocrats trash the planet, then blame it on us. My column. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This column is part of the @Guardian's new series: #ThePolluters. Lots of fascinating and shocking findings: theguardian.com/environment/se…
"we are embedded in a political, economic and physical infrastructure that creates an illusion of choice while, in reality, closing it down."
Polluting fossil fuel companies have been warned their products are affecting the climate since at least the 1960s. THREAD
1959: Physicist Edward Teller tells the American Petroleum Industry a 10% increase in CO2 is enough to melt the icecap and submerge New York.
1965: The US President’s Science Advisory Committee states that “pollutants have altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide content of the air”, with effects that “could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings”.
