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A simple question for @singingwithin and @WCELaw

Why are you not suggesting Climate Accountability letters to every car maker out there.

They have a more direct responsibility for our burning fossil fuels and have aggressively advertised its use for decades? #bcpoli #abpoli
Your Climate Accountability project seems a bit off-target. It ignores the companies that have done the most to encourage use of fossil fuels and removes agency from consumers, the people who actually generated the emissions. @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 2/
A logically consistent program would be going after car manufacturers who aren't building enough ICE vehicles; the airline industry and the tourism industry since they both advertise heavily encouraging wasteful emissions @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 3/
Another group you seem to ignore are the individuals who made their monies off fossil fuels in the past. Why are you not going after the Rockefeller Foundation. Its entire wealth is due to burning fossil fuels @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 4/
You have a fortune in fossil fuel profits...which by your argument is responsible for environmental harm. Why are you not demanding they give all their money to communities as compensation for their contributions to climate change? @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 5/
When your supporters start sending letters demanding the Rockefeller Foundation divest its entire asset base to pay for the generations of emissions that funded its wealth then I will believe you are serious in your task @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 6/
While you are at it why aren't you going after the Pew Foundation? The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation? The J. Paul Getty Trust? The Ford Foundation? All built on historic emissions. Billions in assets but no demand letters? @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 7/
The intellectual incoherence of only going after existing companies today while ignoring the assets that represents the profits from all those historic emissions is simply stunning @nbennett_biv @singingwithin @wcel #bcpoli #abpoli 8/
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