Sunday, 19 September 2021

The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us

The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us

Ben Franta is trying to collect every climate-related ad the oil and gas industry has ever produced. Franta, who is pursuing a law degree and PhD at Stanford, is among a small cohort of researchers who track fossil-fuel industry propaganda. These historians, social scientists, and activists have documented the extent to which major oil companies knew their products were changing the climate as early as the 1960s, and how they poured tens of millions of dollars into sowing doubt about the science through the 1990s.

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