It should be illegal for a company to be so self-serving as to intentionally create misinformation about a public health issue! We lived through this with the tabacco companies who threw money and lies at the piles of data connecting tabacco smoke & lung cancer. Now, through a recent report of the Union of Concerned Scientists, it is clear that Exxon Corporation is directing over $16M to fabricate confusion and distort the truth regarding Global Warming and its relationship to the build up of CO2 provoked by the use of fossil fuels.
Well worth the read and pass along value to friends and colleagues. Here’s the summary and the report itself.
Another must see, if you haven’t yet, and perhaps even if you have… An Inconvenient Truth and their website which offers ways to take action as well current news. Some of Exxon’s money has gone to so called pundits like Sterling Burnett who claims Gore, on the issue of climate change, is like a Nazi protagonist.
If you’re ready for a real WAKE UP call, take the ecological footprint quiz. I was deeply stunned for days after having completed mine. Once you get your score, check out the impact of walking or cycling to work or between meals and flying less … it’s shocking and well, urgent!