Thread by @SenWhitehouse

Well, “cognitive dissonance” sure is a nice way to say it. I’d just call a lie a lie. When has Big Oil NOT lied about climate change? What makes “we care about climate change” a more difficult lie to tell than “climate change isn’t real”?
insideclimatenews.org/news/30122019/…

Liars lie. It’s what they do.

It is ‘not for nothing’ that the real commitment comes from a European company, @RepsolWorldwide, that’s not infected with the U.S. curse of being able to use lies and money and front groups and political muscle to deny reality and corrode politics.

Same on plastics: U.S. companies do minimum necessary to protect PR image; European @Unilever has best pledge — to remove more waste plastic than it produces so it’s a net reducer of plastic waste. Over and over, smug U.S. corporate political money rots U.S. capitalism.

@RepsolWorldwide Look how @RepsolWorldwide’s calm & serious market strategy contrasts with US fossil fuel companies, which flaunt their political muscle to lie & bully their way through this. “Stranded assets? Who, us?”-which they get away with, until the correction comes.
businessinsider.com/decarbonizatio…

@Unilever To the point of foreign corporations typically doing better than U.S. ones, here’s another example — likely because the U.S. corporations know they control U.S. politics.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…