Equates to selling your firstborn for a snickers bar. Or rather a tiny bite of one.

@@distantmind956 accurate

Every species' survival.

Solid comment.

The species are tethered to a political economic system that leads to their own destruction. Profits before people can only end one way. Perhaps the next time around (hundreds of thousands maybe millions of years from now) there will exist in the deep memory of the descendants of the remnants of the current species, that greed is NOT good. They wouldn’t know why this paradigm was passed on from generation to generation over millennia, but hopefully they will stick to the paradigm and avoid the tragedy of their distant ancestors.

Exactly.

Uh... There's no law against those actions, but there's absolutely no law *enforcing* those specific actions. The issue is the absence of laws forbidding those actions, not the existence of laws in general. Your conclusion is flawed. Let me remind you, there are laws against defamation, theft, rape, pedophilia, murder. If you say you don't allow your sense of morality to be dictated by the law, you are saying you agree with those things, and with anything that laws explicitly forbid. See the problem?

@@MariaMartinez-researcher That is improper logic. Simply because A does not encompass B, that does not mean B does not encompass A. In this case, A would be the law and B would be morals. Original comment claimed that the law does not encompass the entirety of their morals. This does not mean that everything stated in the law cannot also be encompassed by their morals. Watch out for logical fallacies! They’re everywhere!

​@@MariaMartinez-researcher your comment doesn't even begin to make logical sense. "You said the laws don't dictate your morality therefore you're saying you think everything illegal is moral" Not even close

Thank the US SCOTUS for declaring that this is "free speech".

@somedeveloperblokey Law AND judicial review.

Corruption isn't illegal because US Congress essentially legalised it.

It is illegal in a lot of countries. There are limits on campaign advertisment spending, single donation limits, open competitive biddings for contract, knowingly disinformation etc etc. Our ex-finance minister just went to jail (minimum 3 years without parole for pulling strings that a friend of him gets a contract) and the next politician is already before the judge because he got honey-trapped by acceping offers while they filmed him ...

Exactly. Biden also LOVES Munchkin. They never did anything to replace him, because they WANT him as a roadblock to progressive policies. Biden is as corrupt as Trump. There is no difference. He just used better words in the past. Now he looses even them.

Because the DNC owns all the news outlets.

@@Red-Brick-Dream Wow. Maybe if you and your counterparts on the "left" would stop being such partisan hacks, you would realize that the DNC and GOP are two sides of the same coin.

@@ben5073 So you agree with me, but angrily. Got it.

Because people literally don’t care anymore. It’s sad. They’ve already made peace with a world where pos like this ruin our planet for money because it doesn’t inconvenience their daily life.

Share it all over the place. Send it to friends and relatives! Force feed it if necessary! ;)

That should be enough for a big punishment

Corporations are actually legally required to serve shareholders by maximizing profits. Thats who they are beholden to and nobody else. All corporations must die. Preferably a painful death.

@@amandap9332 at the very least heavy reform is needed and lobbying has to be made illegal

I wonder how well that's working for them now that a bunch of older board members got booted and replaced with climate activists.

@@amandap9332 that is an issue with our system. A lot of the corruption and greed stems from their legal obligation to do whatever it takes to maximize profit

That's even less than the fake tsar paid towards Brexit.

While I think it's shitty big companies can give money to politicians, and yes I feel that needs to stop, Exxon isn't destroying the future. We, as a species, will survive this crisis but only if we work together and create peace and unity. Not division and hatred.

That is from one company, how many other similar companies are paying off the same people?

Don't be fooled! They get untraceable money and retirement packages in the millions!

@@nikkisharp7479 this

People are arguing about BLM and rights for lbgt while in the background this is going on

​@gkelectrical1 divide and conquer. It only benefits them to create seperate classes, encourage racism, and homophobia...and Ameicans fall into that trap everyday. To think religious leaders are not taking money from these places too would be laughable. They are invested in our complacency.

It's not enough to change individual politicians because the next ones are incentivised to be just as corrupt (non-corrupt ones will have less money behind their election campaigns). This is all a logical consequence of a capitalist economic system; Corporate profit maximisation is more important than anything else and will infect more and more of our lives. We need to smash the machine before it destroys us.

@@Fluxquark It's been observed under other regime types. Corruption is always linked to power of any type.Yes, even at home.

Bad news

Agreed, although despite the inherent flaws in capitalism, the system isn't broken, it works perfectly for billionaires and kleptocratic parasites.

The same broken system that produced your first world country?

@@thiagov6123 Yes, colonial imperialism driven by capitalism. That's the one. And I can criticise it even if I happen to have benefited from it because it's objectively awful.

Totally agree #RebelForLife

But how? Big corporations have quite literally covered all their bases against such a fight.

It wasn't journalists- it was Greenpeace! Media Mafia businesses are just using it to make money!

@@guppy0112 media mafia? grow up

@@guppy0112 keep crying about it

@@guppy0112 unfortunately you’re correct.

@@guppy0112 pro hacker say: Round 2 coming soon, and peeps who identify with lobbyists are fair game for hand-off to groups beyond extradition... Sleep tight ;)

The GOVERNMENT mandates that businesses inCORPORATE. That is where we get CORPORATE GOVERNMENT with politicians ruling over We The people.

@@WayneSmith-lo8be sure. both state and capitalism sucks. should we all go full blown ancoms or should we fight them within the "law" and "order"

@@pygmalion8952 We The People just need to never have the Presidency and both Houses controlled by one party.

@@WayneSmith-lo8be Because that would solve all our problems? lol

@@kyle9401 No, just stop creating NEW problems.

Perfect example of the banality of evil

We don't even recognize evil, because it's in all of us and we tend to make the same excuses for us then we make for them, because we don't understand how little is needed to make us evil. It really didn't take much to allow the holocaust to happen. Most germans didn't have to kill anyone. No, they just looked away and didn't do the hard work that would have been necessary to combat evil. A lot of people made excuses "well, i was just following orders! I'm not responsible but the person, who gave the orders is responsible!". Of course the guy, who gave the orders says the same thing: "I'm just following the orders of this other guy. I'm not responsible" or "you can't expect me to make such big sacrifices just for doing the right thing, while others do nothing!" Climate change is very similar. The evil we all do isn't easy to recnognize. And often we don't want to recognize it. We are fully aware that since we're all using oil, we're all responsible for global warming. This makes us feel good in not doing anything, because everyone else is doing it too. Except that it's of course not true. While we're all using oil (not possible yet not to use it) some of us are actively fighting for the change we need, while others are doing nothing or even fight the change by spreading misinformation. Maybe McCoy still feels that he isn't evil. After all he's just looking out for those poor shareholers. Watch the "psychology of evil" by Philip Zimbardo, if you still don't know what i'm talking about.

@@stauffap What you left out was the lack of alternatives promulgated by the very entities that profit from that lack of opportunity; we are a captive and altogether propagandized consumer audience.

@@paulmccarter908 Not sure what you're talking about. But we've known how to construct a CO2 neutral energy system for over a decade now with existing technologies and at long term costs that are comparable to today. So there are cost effective alterantives to fossil fuels. We just chose not to use them and many people don't even know about them because of the misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry. If you want solutions for global warming then you only have to read the scientific literature. It's literatally that easy. It almost seesm too good to be true because it's that easy. But of course the people don't know about the simple solutions because of this disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades now. The media and politicians alike are not telling us what's in the scientific literature.

@@stauffap apathy is the greatest enabler of evil. Too many of us really don’t care enough to save ourselves or our posterity. Few are willing to make the sacrifice for the good of humanity. And apathy is what the greed driven power hungry cohort among us depend upon to push through their mindless grab for more wealth and comfort and the expense of everyone. And so, we suffer what we must.

Exactly 👏🏼 Well said 👍🏻

Fines mean nothing. Nationalize them and prosecute the executives for crimes against humanity

Not $$, PRISON with NO Key!!

Fines are only punishments for us poors. For business, it's a part of doing business. If it's a crime, they need to go to jail. Simple as that.

@@Passionate_Potato Problem is this type of behavior is not illegal in our system. Remember too big to fail? Its a systemic problem that will doom us.

Na they already made huge donations to politicians campaigns politicians won't touch them....

typical american here - worries about the company before people

I wouldnt be surprised if he actually started all this by saying he hated what he did

Banks and oil companies rule the US, not the puppets called President.

Unless we all get active, this won't stop. Most importantly we have to act by voting in every possible election, but this is not enough. We have to call and write to representatives to demand more climate action, so that oil and gas lobbyists won't succeed. They whisper in the politician's ears, so we have to scream to drown out their sinister, manipulating voices (metaphorically speaking). Or even better, run for a public office ourselves. The fact that money runs the government and destroys many plants and animals is a perversion that has to stop. We have to fight to protect this beautiful Earth and all it's wonders

And Trump's first trip overseas was to Saudi Arabia.

​@@membear to be fair, Biden's been over there a lot begging for oil too.

Children have been murdered and abused by "parents' for decades. Who cared about that? The "family" system for many has been Climate Destroyed decades ago

@@AprilWatters Are you fucking daft? Making such a blanket statement and being wrong trying to downplay the verifiable fact that these oil execs are knowingly harming the world.

@@dntthe88 lol

It's not just this guy though - he's just part of a broader system unfortunately.

*this entire industry Don't do the cliché "shifting a societal issue onto a single scapegoat" thing please, every fucking investor in this industry is the embodiment of pure sociopathic greed.

"Okay gentlemen, how would you like us to punish Greenpeace for you?"

The lobbyists own anyone that is able to get past a primary election so there is a fat chance of any positive change ever happening from the government. well anything short of a complete ban of corporate lobbying and the complete dismantling of the 2 party primary system that is.

@Scott Luther A mandatory retirement age of 65, as well.

Send them to The Hague. The Senate won’t do anything.

Something something about left wing propaganda and silencing Conservatives.

Privatising? Sorry, isn't the BBC the only national TV channel that is paid for by a TV licence? Aren't all other channels private companies already?

State hands!

It's like watching a cartoonish punch-clock villain. Except they are lawful evil in real life.

Even with 60 votes for 17 weeks, you still had some of the same Democrats who oppose this and worry about getting re-elected too much.

electric vehicles are not equitable and still have massive carbon footprints, Telsa now has to import metal 7,000 miles from the goro mine in new caledonia using cargo ships running on oil.

@@Lildizzle420 the previous comment said nothing about them being equitable, but simply that the are not more dangerous. However ICE cars still require metal imported, they also ship far more cargo since the cars are assembled in other countries and then shipped to be sold.The irony is using the term carbon footprint, which itself was coined by a marketing company paid for by BP.

@@JarredSutherland I don't know why you made such an obvious observation about what's being said here, why is it relevant who coined the term "carbon footprint"

Also look at what is by far their biggest success story in Nuclear energy's bad reputation sure it is far from perfect but the evidence shows its actually the safest energy source overall in part because the higher energy density. The hypocrisy is even worse because the extraction of hydrocarbons from the bottom of salt domes brings up large quantities of concentrated heavy radioactive salts which ironically means the fossil fuel industry has "produced" more radioactive waste than every nuclear power plant combined. lobbying and disinformation combined are a terrifying force of evil.

@@Dragrath1 nuclear is the most regulated in the world and only produces 10% of global energy. right now we nuclear incidents in Hanford, Taishan, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. this is an era of unregulated nuclear energy, you're about to see how "safe" it really is

Keeps those in power wealthy, which is also why the lobbying never ends. Quite the system.

You assume they’re smart? Perhaps you should reconsider how you assess intelligence, and try and de-link that concept of intelligence from the dominant narrative of the culture. You might find that those you consider smart may not be so. And those you ignore as such may well turn out to be.

I think they’re banking on being dead by the time anything bad happens to them

When the climate collapses, there will be pockets of people still surviving because of machines which will run on oil.

They’re already super rich. They’d destroy a planet so they get to see the mountains of money they’ll never spend get that bit higher.

Wouldn’t be surprised if these guys are behind the woke culture to keep our attention away from them

@@gkelectrical1 Well if you're talking about woke capitalism, companies co-opt a lot of left leaning ideas such as intersectionality for their own image. Ben and Jerries might preach for black lives matter on twitter, but their parent company is known for human rights abuses abroad and exploiting global southern countries.

@@gkelectrical1 they are. Don’t even pretend that they don’t encourage this. We have people eating each other alive on Twitter over gender politics when this is the real issue. The big companies may get dragged into it and they just throw out the standards, put the colours on their logo, say Black Lives Matter. Job done, that will satisfy the frothing masses. Now we can get back to what we really want to do. Making money however we can.

i hope people understand while this is a left problem, this was originally a right problem as well. the right politicians LOVED, absolutely LOVED oil money so right wing politics dominated. Now that big tech has surpassed the wealth of the oil industries, they'll adopt left wing politics....without the worker policies because unlike gender politics, it costs companies' money. The only difference with our government was WHICH corporations are in charge. People who think left is the only evil are as just as a problem as those who think right is the only evil. Two sides of the same coin. There is no "lesser evil".

@@AlanBerger1337 depends on the price tag.

9 million people die from.climate change every year. they have blood on their hands, as do piliticians

Heat waves are not caused by man. The earth has been naturally heating since the last ice age.

@@denisdaly1708 Adding in early deaths from air pollution would put their kill counts in the hundreds of millions

What "the people" want is irrelevant. That said, 75% of 'Muricans don't know or care about anything which doesn't affect their hamberders or sportsball. www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained

Their paychecks are more important than their kids and grandkids. It works via cognitive dissonance - he knows he earns a living by contributing to the annihilation of his planet, but that's too troubling of a thought, so he blocks it out of his mind and replaces it with a fantasy that global warming is a false alarm.

Good point! 👍🏻

you know what fits in a high way bill? a tax on vehicle miles traveled

@@Lildizzle420 Canada taxes fuel for that reason. Does US not do the same ? Do you not also pay for vehicle registration ?

But you still buy gas?? 😂🤣

That is a good first step that is practical to take. Its impact is small, but it is something you can directly do.

KYJELLY is used to frack gasholes. It does have SAND, so don't try this at home.

Radha I hope you can appreciate he need to say that to get elected...especially in states like PA. I'm so happy he did too. Another 4 years of Trump would have obliterated the climate and our country. It's a complicated world.

@@brseeger1 Except that he did'nt say it to just get elected, he meant it. It was President Obama after all that was crowned "The King of Fracking" this people care about the environment in superficial ways like banning plastic bags and plastic straws, but not at the core of the issue, because as is evident in this vide THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS!

@@brseeger1 What would the world be like if we had no climate(s)? What would the world be like if there were no USA? AOC says that the world as we know it is ending in less than 10 years. We won't need any climate(s) or even the USA then !!!!!! The insects will take over and the Earth will be better off !!!!!!! THAT'S EVOLUTION !!!!!!!!!!!

@@Radhaugo108 Most fracking is done to release NATURAL GAS which is less polluting than COAL.

He was deceived, that's why he spoke candidly.

They obsess over hot button issues and don't report very much relevant news. I personally find their obsessions over the same stories annoying.

@@GenerationX1984 This is certainly a hot button issue and yet they still don't cover it.