UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

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Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change who presents her damning new report to the general assembly in Geneva on Monday, argues that the US, UK, Canada, Australia and other wealthy fossil fuel nations are legally obliged under international law to fully phase out oil, gas and coal by 2030 – and compensate communities for harms caused.

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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- or their pockets start hurting. which is why they should be sued at any opportunity. our future depends on it, at this point.
Meanwhile Trump says "we're gonna drill, baby, drill" and creates import tariffs on solar panels.
Not only should disinformation and misinformation of this type be illegal, the people running the companies need to be personally held accountable for their actions.
Fuck limited liability corporations.
Those people know exactly what they are doing and use this legal fiction as a shield for their barbarity.
- I want people going to jail for planning murders 30-50 years in advance because that's literally what every lying piece of shit oil and gas company did.
  
  And their estates are stolen wealth that needs to be confiscated. Their grandkids can be a bunch of working stiffs like us.
Anyone else been getting a lot of fossil fuel ads lately? I hear them on my podcasts, even progressive ones like the nation, talking about how everything is made with fossil fuels and we need them.
I guess it's a good sign since it means there public opinion is so shit they need to put up pr, but they're annoying.
- everything is made with fossil fuels and we need them
  So let's stop burning them?
- to ride the oil and gas commodity price boom even higher
Good luck with that.
How else are the poor oil companies going to lie to the people of the earth about all their futures? Can't have that stip, now can we?
Just to clarify: if it were up to me we'd jail the shit out of all the managers and c levels of all oil companies world wide. Hang those that were particularly bad from a public bridge, just to send a message.
It's not up to me, though