![]() ExxonMobil is a disgrace, a perennial resident on most social and environmental boycott lists. If you’re not already boycotting these robber barons, please start. Include subsidiaries Ancon, Esso, Delhi, Fina, Superior, Columbia Resources, Standard, Duke Energy, Imperial, and Paxon. This organization demonstrates with stunning clarity how desperately we need radical reform of corporate charters, the revocation of ‘rights of persons’ for corporations, and an end to indemnification of officers and directors of corporations for company wrong-doings. If we had these reforms in place, the corporation, on being found guilty of such outrageously negligent behaviour, could have its charter revoked, its officers imprisoned, and fines a hundred times larger could be imposed, and made to stick. The fines could used to shake the rest of the industry into proper environmental safeguards, and to provide a fund for protection and remediation of natural sites despoiled by the oil oligopoly the world over. Here is just a partial list of the long litany of ExxonMobil corporate misdeeds, other than the Valdez disaster:
Of course ExxonMobil denies virtually all of this. They’re fighting, have been fighting, and will continue to fight most of these charges until the litigants die or run out of money. They are listed as one of the Top 10 ‘Greenwashers’ in the world — companies that spend huge amounts on PR, advertising and litigation to misrepresent themselves as socially and environmentally responsible, while investing next to nothing on remediation, research or any other programs that could actually make them more responsible. A new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth, just out today, shows ExxonMobil is single-handedly responsible for 5% of all the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in modern history, earmarking it as the world’s single largest contributor to global warming. The company is the object of literally hundreds of boycotts worldwide, and is absolutely remorseless for what they are doing to our planet. We need to stop these bastards. Please support a renewed boycott of all ExxonMobil products, companies, and suppliers, and spread the word to others. ExxonMobil and the oil barons may have the Bush Administration in their back pockets, but we can use our back pockets to make an example of them, until it hurts their bottom line. |
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Why Economic Collapse Will Precede Climate Collapse
Being Adaptable: A Reminder List
A Culture of Fear
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A Future Without Us
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If you’re ever in Homer, Alaska, as I was two years ago, they have a fantastic museum dedicated to the big exxon valdez spill. A real eye-opener. Total indictment of Exxon in every possible way.