They certainly have. I've complained to NYT several times over their full page BP greenwashing ads, citing misinformation. I don't suppose it helps, but it's nice to at least push. I even emailed back and forth with a real person over it, so I got that going for me which is nice.
The Market buys the government regulators and forces the competition out, thus retiring from being "a market" into being a monopoly. Eventually The Market also buys politicians, just like regulators. It's all very stupid, don't let the econobros distract you.
Daily reminder that we can either kill capitalism or capitalism will cause the death of humanity. Either way the environment will recover, the question is if its with or without us.
So strange that we as a species choose the latter, because there are so many great toys, it's still comfy enough and cheese tastes good. Why would BP or animal agriculture stop if we keep buying their products?
We do so because the capitalists have brainwashed the masses into consumerism, in addition society is structured around it. Capitalist tyranny therefore cannot be overthrown by voting harder or reducing consumption, the workers and the planet can only be saved with revolution.
But black book of communism said communism killed 100 million people (more than what nazism killed), and the streamer by the name Mr. Shit told me that wokism will destroy video games by giving women square jaws, so now I'm a centrist between Margaret Thatcher and Adolf Hitler! /s
These monsters would (and probably will) kill everyone you love to make a buck. It's insane that no government or organization is even remotely willing to put these transparently corrupt companies in check.
Let me answer your question with another question.
Will the masses literally having loved ones killed by greed induced climate change ever accept that the toxic social opiates they're fed to remain complacent (social media, fast food, unnecessary plastic crap, literal opiates, etc) aren't worth burning our sole, shared habitat and any future for humanity in the name of short term private profit, and both bring justice to them and accept the necessary reduced quality of life that will come with the necessary destruction of the supply chains destroying the human habitability of the planet for millions of years?
Because incremental change would have been an option... Half a century ago when we were loudly warned. Drastic action is necessary today, the kind that will make a billion including possibly you and I starve. I argue that if there is any decency in our species... At all... we should, otherwise we're telling all potential future generations to go fuck themselves over our Postmates and Pop Figures.
How are we supposed to do that though? We're talking about BP partnering with the Iraqi government to extract their oil reserves, which then hit the global market. I realize BP brings technology to the deal but it's not exactly rocket science. I'd love to see moratoriums around the world, but that's going to be a bunch of individual countries/jurisdictions making those decisions. Companies are legally required to maximize profit and that means maximizing extraction. Killing the capitalism and making BP a workers co-op probably gets us the same decision, based on the reticence of any workforce to abandon their livelihood.
Here in the US we're at record oil/gas production but half the country thinks we're killing the entire industry. Like I wish we were actually doing that, but instead we just have the IRA (which is great all things considered) but it's mostly industrial policy focused on mostly the right industries for once.