The species are tethered to a political economic system that leads to their own destruction. Profits before people can only end one way. Perhaps the next time around (hundreds of thousands maybe millions of years from now) there will exist in the deep memory of the descendants of the remnants of the current species, that greed is NOT good. They wouldn’t know why this paradigm was passed on from generation to generation over millennia, but hopefully they will stick to the paradigm and avoid the tragedy of their distant ancestors.
@@Red-Brick-Dream Wow. Maybe if you and your counterparts on the "left" would stop being such partisan hacks, you would realize that the DNC and GOP are two sides of the same coin.
Because people literally don’t care anymore. It’s sad. They’ve already made peace with a world where pos like this ruin our planet for money because it doesn’t inconvenience their daily life.
"Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? YES" "Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? YES" "But there's nothing illegal about that." Why I don't allow my sense of morality to be dictated by the law.
Uh... There's no law against those actions, but there's absolutely no law *enforcing* those specific actions. The issue is the absence of laws forbidding those actions, not the existence of laws in general. Your conclusion is flawed. Let me remind you, there are laws against defamation, theft, rape, pedophilia, murder. If you say you don't allow your sense of morality to be dictated by the law, you are saying you agree with those things, and with anything that laws explicitly forbid. See the problem?
@@MariaMartinez-researcher That is improper logic. Simply because A does not encompass B, that does not mean B does not encompass A. In this case, A would be the law and B would be morals. Original comment claimed that the law does not encompass the entirety of their morals. This does not mean that everything stated in the law cannot also be encompassed by their morals. Watch out for logical fallacies! They’re everywhere!
@@MariaMartinez-researcher your comment doesn't even begin to make logical sense. "You said the laws don't dictate your morality therefore you're saying you think everything illegal is moral" Not even close
While I think it's shitty big companies can give money to politicians, and yes I feel that needs to stop, Exxon isn't destroying the future. We, as a species, will survive this crisis but only if we work together and create peace and unity. Not division and hatred.
Corporations are actually legally required to serve shareholders by maximizing profits. Thats who they are beholden to and nobody else. All corporations must die. Preferably a painful death.
@@amandap9332 that is an issue with our system. A lot of the corruption and greed stems from their legal obligation to do whatever it takes to maximize profit
It is illegal in a lot of countries. There are limits on campaign advertisment spending, single donation limits, open competitive biddings for contract, knowingly disinformation etc etc. Our ex-finance minister just went to jail (minimum 3 years without parole for pulling strings that a friend of him gets a contract) and the next politician is already before the judge because he got honey-trapped by acceping offers while they filmed him ...
Exactly. Biden also LOVES Munchkin. They never did anything to replace him, because they WANT him as a roadblock to progressive policies. Biden is as corrupt as Trump. There is no difference. He just used better words in the past. Now he looses even them.
@gkelectrical1 divide and conquer. It only benefits them to create seperate classes, encourage racism, and homophobia...and Ameicans fall into that trap everyday. To think religious leaders are not taking money from these places too would be laughable. They are invested in our complacency.
Great reporting. Guys like this are the worst kind of sociopaths. And our sick economic system rewards them handsomely. If we let this carry on, we are truly f-ed. Time to rebel against this broken system.
@@thiagov6123 Yes, colonial imperialism driven by capitalism. That's the one. And I can criticise it even if I happen to have benefited from it because it's objectively awful.
We don't even recognize evil, because it's in all of us and we tend to make the same excuses for us then we make for them, because we don't understand how little is needed to make us evil. It really didn't take much to allow the holocaust to happen. Most germans didn't have to kill anyone. No, they just looked away and didn't do the hard work that would have been necessary to combat evil. A lot of people made excuses "well, i was just following orders! I'm not responsible but the person, who gave the orders is responsible!". Of course the guy, who gave the orders says the same thing: "I'm just following the orders of this other guy. I'm not responsible" or "you can't expect me to make such big sacrifices just for doing the right thing, while others do nothing!" Climate change is very similar. The evil we all do isn't easy to recnognize. And often we don't want to recognize it. We are fully aware that since we're all using oil, we're all responsible for global warming. This makes us feel good in not doing anything, because everyone else is doing it too. Except that it's of course not true. While we're all using oil (not possible yet not to use it) some of us are actively fighting for the change we need, while others are doing nothing or even fight the change by spreading misinformation. Maybe McCoy still feels that he isn't evil. After all he's just looking out for those poor shareholers. Watch the "psychology of evil" by Philip Zimbardo, if you still don't know what i'm talking about.
@@stauffap What you left out was the lack of alternatives promulgated by the very entities that profit from that lack of opportunity; we are a captive and altogether propagandized consumer audience.
@@paulmccarter908 Not sure what you're talking about. But we've known how to construct a CO2 neutral energy system for over a decade now with existing technologies and at long term costs that are comparable to today. So there are cost effective alterantives to fossil fuels. We just chose not to use them and many people don't even know about them because of the misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry. If you want solutions for global warming then you only have to read the scientific literature. It's literatally that easy. It almost seesm too good to be true because it's that easy. But of course the people don't know about the simple solutions because of this disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades now. The media and politicians alike are not telling us what's in the scientific literature.
@@stauffap apathy is the greatest enabler of evil. Too many of us really don’t care enough to save ourselves or our posterity. Few are willing to make the sacrifice for the good of humanity. And apathy is what the greed driven power hungry cohort among us depend upon to push through their mindless grab for more wealth and comfort and the expense of everyone. And so, we suffer what we must.
Would be nice to see the complete, unedited footage of the interview. Even if it's mostly boring, and includes the initial manipulation of the interviewee which might make him a sympathetic figure. What matters is that he's telling the truth after all.
*this entire industry Don't do the cliché "shifting a societal issue onto a single scapegoat" thing please, every fucking investor in this industry is the embodiment of pure sociopathic greed.
The lobbyists own anyone that is able to get past a primary election so there is a fat chance of any positive change ever happening from the government. well anything short of a complete ban of corporate lobbying and the complete dismantling of the 2 party primary system that is.
If the defense of something you do or did boils down to "technically, not illegal" you are in fact doing evil things. Please do not measure your morality and your impact on the world around you exclusively on the basis of lawful behavior. Sometimes the law is wrong.
Democrats should have done something about this ten years ago when they had 60 votes. Now they can barely pass some watered down bill thst will just make sure highways and bridges don’t collapse. They better pass a climate bill through reconciliation after they do this roads and bridges bill.
electric vehicles are not equitable and still have massive carbon footprints, Telsa now has to import metal 7,000 miles from the goro mine in new caledonia using cargo ships running on oil.
@@Lildizzle420 the previous comment said nothing about them being equitable, but simply that the are not more dangerous. However ICE cars still require metal imported, they also ship far more cargo since the cars are assembled in other countries and then shipped to be sold.The irony is using the term carbon footprint, which itself was coined by a marketing company paid for by BP.
@@JarredSutherland I don't know why you made such an obvious observation about what's being said here, why is it relevant who coined the term "carbon footprint"
Also look at what is by far their biggest success story in Nuclear energy's bad reputation sure it is far from perfect but the evidence shows its actually the safest energy source overall in part because the higher energy density. The hypocrisy is even worse because the extraction of hydrocarbons from the bottom of salt domes brings up large quantities of concentrated heavy radioactive salts which ironically means the fossil fuel industry has "produced" more radioactive waste than every nuclear power plant combined. lobbying and disinformation combined are a terrifying force of evil.
@@Dragrath1 nuclear is the most regulated in the world and only produces 10% of global energy. right now we nuclear incidents in Hanford, Taishan, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. this is an era of unregulated nuclear energy, you're about to see how "safe" it really is
We need more of this journalism. Thank you. I am sharing this with as many Arizona voters as I can. Kyrsten Sinema no longer represents those who’ve elected her; she has lied to us and no longer deserves to remain in Congress.
I didn't hear about this in the news at all. Thank you. We all knew this was happening at some level, but this is disgusting. F the fossil fuel industry.
What I never understand is how can so many supposedly smart people put the value corporate assets above the needs of the environment. What would these assets be worth after a total climate collapse? The modern corporate culture of greed and short termism has a lot to answer for
You assume they’re smart? Perhaps you should reconsider how you assess intelligence, and try and de-link that concept of intelligence from the dominant narrative of the culture. You might find that those you consider smart may not be so. And those you ignore as such may well turn out to be.
Good on Channel 4 for making this report. If you google articles related to this you'll find few major news organisations that even cover the story and the ones who do omit large parts of the conversation with McCoy (the Exxon rep. in the video). Honestly, can anyone explain to me what positive benefits (if there are any) lobbying actually provides in a democracy?
Right here. This is the MOST important journalism of our time. We MUST vote out of Congress ANY senator that allows Exxon to use them as a tool to spread their blatant lies (which we already knew, but here is self-admitted). **This is the #1 issue**. We KNOW we are headed for catastrophe if we don't take action. And we CAN take action. Please. Call and email the Senators on this list, and if they don't vow to change, vote and campaign against them. And share this video!
This video needs MILLIONS of views. People need to know this. I was under the impression Mark Kelly was very progressive, this is a real slap in the face.
Exxon said his statements (the guy whose job is it to represent company beliefs) do not represent the beliefs on the company and he still has his job. Nothing changed.
Do these people not have kids? Grandkids? And they just plain don’t care if their home is on fire.. I would genuinely like to understand this guys justification for knowingly, massively contributing to the irreversible destruction of the planet he’s standing on.
Their paychecks are more important than their kids and grandkids. It works via cognitive dissonance - he knows he earns a living by contributing to the annihilation of his planet, but that's too troubling of a thought, so he blocks it out of his mind and replaces it with a fantasy that global warming is a false alarm.
Unsurprisingly, this guy is still working in the same job. Despite Exxon saying he was lying and doesn't represent Exxon, even though his job is representing Exxon. These companies need to be held responsible for their bullshit.
Radha I hope you can appreciate he need to say that to get elected...especially in states like PA. I'm so happy he did too. Another 4 years of Trump would have obliterated the climate and our country. It's a complicated world.
@@brseeger1 Except that he did'nt say it to just get elected, he meant it. It was President Obama after all that was crowned "The King of Fracking" this people care about the environment in superficial ways like banning plastic bags and plastic straws, but not at the core of the issue, because as is evident in this vide THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS!
@@brseeger1 What would the world be like if we had no climate(s)? What would the world be like if there were no USA? AOC says that the world as we know it is ending in less than 10 years. We won't need any climate(s) or even the USA then !!!!!! The insects will take over and the Earth will be better off !!!!!!! THAT'S EVOLUTION !!!!!!!!!!!
Now oil lobbies are refusing to increase production to drop prices on the grounds that they don't have the leases while they sit on enough leases to drill unfettered for the next 20 years. At the same exact time they're making record breaking profits and buying new leases.
What this means is what the American voters want, or demand is not relevant to governmental policy passed through legislation and in many instances neither political party can be depended on to do anything for the benefit of the nation as a whole, in fact the possibility of the very land we live on becoming uninhabitable doesn't matter. It seems short term profit is all that matters and the environment and the citizenry be damned. I suppose when it gets so bad they will simply establish an authoritarian state upon those that survive while all these investors and the politicians who are naught but their whores will go and create their own living spaces in the parts of the world not yet totally diminished by Climate Change. Eventually I'm sure they think they can seek refuge off planet where they will dictate their expectations to those down below. And this will be true all across they globe because this Fascism for profit seems to be a global position of the avaricious classes.
What "the people" want is irrelevant. That said, 75% of 'Muricans don't know or care about anything which doesn't affect their hamberders or sportsball. www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained
How can your defense for doing something reprehensible be "there's nothing illegal about that" when you're the one determining what the laws even are??
Ok so I think its important we recognize the tactics he's using. "Limiting emissions on oil refineries in an infrastructure bill is absurd" i mean... it kind of is. It's something that needs to happen, sure, but it is kinda unrelated to the core subject of the bill. both parties shoehorn unrelated stuff into bills like this. And so knowing the other side is aware of that, it makes it that much easier to catch these congressmen. It just goes to show you how interlinked all these issues are. The entire system is fucked.
Complete BS. If we had started the transition 50 years ago there would be no need to subsidies. The oil and gas industry lost a lot of credibility over this video.
Thanks for this Channel 4 news, but I wonder how many politicians, charities, and influential people who can make changes are watching this and turning a blind eye to it. 😢 And the joke is, “who’s in charge of all this?”
If we want to significantly reduce C02 emissions then we need to significantly increase and modernize our nuclear reactors. Nuclear energy is the safest, cleanest, and most efficient method for generating power that currently exists. It is far safer than processing and burning fossil fuels. Current Generation III reactors are very safe with an extremely low chance of meltdown. Generation IV reactors are safer still, produce significantly less waste and the waste they do produce is safer. If we engaged in a large scale expansion and development program we could reduce global C02 emission by 75% in under 20 years!
then they immediately throw their own employee of almost 8 years under the bus is the funniest part. the fact that these huge corporations are allowed to not comment is the WORST part
Commenting to bump in the algorithm. Can't even watch, this stuff upsets me so much. I'm sorry as an American we'll take the rest of the world down with us into ecological collapse.
What's sad is how little money it took to sell out the species' survival
Equates to selling your firstborn for a snickers bar. Or rather a tiny bite of one.
@@distantmind956 accurate
Every species' survival.
Solid comment.
The species are tethered to a political economic system that leads to their own destruction. Profits before people can only end one way. Perhaps the next time around (hundreds of thousands maybe millions of years from now) there will exist in the deep memory of the descendants of the remnants of the current species, that greed is NOT good. They wouldn’t know why this paradigm was passed on from generation to generation over millennia, but hopefully they will stick to the paradigm and avoid the tragedy of their distant ancestors.
This needs to be bigger. Why is nobody talking about this? Share the heck out of this to everyone!
Because the DNC owns all the news outlets.
@@Red-Brick-Dream Wow. Maybe if you and your counterparts on the "left" would stop being such partisan hacks, you would realize that the DNC and GOP are two sides of the same coin.
@@ben5073 So you agree with me, but angrily. Got it.
Because people literally don’t care anymore. It’s sad. They’ve already made peace with a world where pos like this ruin our planet for money because it doesn’t inconvenience their daily life.
Share it all over the place. Send it to friends and relatives! Force feed it if necessary! ;)
"Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? YES"
"Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? YES"
"But there's nothing illegal about that."
Why I don't allow my sense of morality to be dictated by the law.
Exactly.
Uh... There's no law against those actions, but there's absolutely no law *enforcing* those specific actions. The issue is the absence of laws forbidding those actions, not the existence of laws in general.
Your conclusion is flawed. Let me remind you, there are laws against defamation, theft, rape, pedophilia, murder. If you say you don't allow your sense of morality to be dictated by the law, you are saying you agree with those things, and with anything that laws explicitly forbid. See the problem?
@@MariaMartinez-researcher
That is improper logic.
Simply because A does not encompass B, that does not mean B does not encompass A.
In this case, A would be the law and B would be morals.
Original comment claimed that the law does not encompass the entirety of their morals. This does not mean that everything stated in the law cannot also be encompassed by their morals.
Watch out for logical fallacies! They’re everywhere!
@@MariaMartinez-researcher your comment doesn't even begin to make logical sense. "You said the laws don't dictate your morality therefore you're saying you think everything illegal is moral" Not even close
$117,000 is all it takes for a company destroy our future.
That's even less than the fake tsar paid towards Brexit.
While I think it's shitty big companies can give money to politicians, and yes I feel that needs to stop, Exxon isn't destroying the future. We, as a species, will survive this crisis but only if we work together and create peace and unity. Not division and hatred.
That is from one company, how many other similar companies are paying off the same people?
Don't be fooled! They get untraceable money and retirement packages in the millions!
@@nikkisharp7479 this
"We were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders." That says it all.
That should be enough for a big punishment
Corporations are actually legally required to serve shareholders by maximizing profits. Thats who they are beholden to and nobody else.
All corporations must die.
Preferably a painful death.
@@amandap9332 at the very least heavy reform is needed and lobbying has to be made illegal
I wonder how well that's working for them now that a bunch of older board members got booted and replaced with climate activists.
@@amandap9332 that is an issue with our system. A lot of the corruption and greed stems from their legal obligation to do whatever it takes to maximize profit
Exxonmobil: Our lobbying efforts are fully compliant with all laws (that we wrote)
Corruption isn’t illegal when lawmakers refuse to make it illegal to behave corruptly.
Thank the US SCOTUS for declaring that this is "free speech".
@somedeveloperblokey Law AND judicial review.
Corruption isn't illegal because US Congress essentially legalised it.
It is illegal in a lot of countries.
There are limits on campaign advertisment spending, single donation limits, open competitive biddings for contract, knowingly disinformation etc etc.
Our ex-finance minister just went to jail (minimum 3 years without parole for pulling strings that a friend of him gets a contract) and the next politician is already before the judge because he got honey-trapped by acceping offers while they filmed him ...
Exactly. Biden also LOVES Munchkin. They never did anything to replace him, because they WANT him as a roadblock to progressive policies.
Biden is as corrupt as Trump. There is no difference. He just used better words in the past. Now he looses even them.
they used to do this in secret, now they're doing it straight in our faces.
People are arguing about BLM and rights for lbgt while in the background this is going on
@gkelectrical1 divide and conquer. It only benefits them to create seperate classes, encourage racism, and homophobia...and Ameicans fall into that trap everyday. To think religious leaders are not taking money from these places too would be laughable. They are invested in our complacency.
Great reporting.
Guys like this are the worst kind of sociopaths. And our sick economic system rewards them handsomely.
If we let this carry on, we are truly f-ed. Time to rebel against this broken system.
Agreed, although despite the inherent flaws in capitalism, the system isn't broken, it works perfectly for billionaires and kleptocratic parasites.
The same broken system that produced your first world country?
@@thiagov6123
Yes, colonial imperialism driven by capitalism. That's the one. And I can criticise it even if I happen to have benefited from it because it's objectively awful.
Totally agree #RebelForLife
But how? Big corporations have quite literally covered all their bases against such a fight.
Shameful, evil, corporate greed laid bare for everyone to see.
The GOVERNMENT mandates that businesses inCORPORATE. That is where we get CORPORATE GOVERNMENT with politicians ruling over We The people.
@@WayneSmith-lo8be sure. both state and capitalism sucks. should we all go full blown ancoms or should we fight them within the "law" and "order"
@@pygmalion8952 We The People just need to never have the Presidency and both Houses controlled by one party.
@@WayneSmith-lo8be Because that would solve all our problems? lol
@@kyle9401 No, just stop creating NEW problems.
This lobbyist just spilled more tea on ExxonMobil than the Exxon Valdez spilled oil on Alaska.
typical american here - worries about the company before people
This seemingly nice, smart guy has been working for the devil, and he sees no problem with that.
Perfect example of the banality of evil
We don't even recognize evil, because it's in all of us and we tend to make the same excuses for us then we make for them, because we don't understand how little is needed to make us evil. It really didn't take much to allow the holocaust to happen. Most germans didn't have to kill anyone. No, they just looked away and didn't do the hard work that would have been necessary to combat evil. A lot of people made excuses "well, i was just following orders! I'm not responsible but the person, who gave the orders is responsible!". Of course the guy, who gave the orders says the same thing: "I'm just following the orders of this other guy. I'm not responsible" or "you can't expect me to make such big sacrifices just for doing the right thing, while others do nothing!"
Climate change is very similar. The evil we all do isn't easy to recnognize. And often we don't want to recognize it. We are fully aware that since we're all using oil, we're all responsible for global warming. This makes us feel good in not doing anything, because everyone else is doing it too. Except that it's of course not true. While we're all using oil (not possible yet not to use it) some of us are actively fighting for the change we need, while others are doing nothing or even fight the change by spreading misinformation. Maybe McCoy still feels that he isn't evil. After all he's just looking out for those poor shareholers.
Watch the "psychology of evil" by Philip Zimbardo, if you still don't know what i'm talking about.
@@stauffap What you left out was the lack of alternatives promulgated by the very entities that profit from that lack of opportunity; we are a captive and altogether propagandized consumer audience.
@@paulmccarter908
Not sure what you're talking about. But we've known how to construct a CO2 neutral energy system for over a decade now with existing technologies and at long term costs that are comparable to today.
So there are cost effective alterantives to fossil fuels. We just chose not to use them and many people don't even know about them because of the misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry.
If you want solutions for global warming then you only have to read the scientific literature. It's literatally that easy. It almost seesm too good to be true because it's that easy. But of course the people don't know about the simple solutions because of this disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades now. The media and politicians alike are not telling us what's in the scientific literature.
@@stauffap apathy is the greatest enabler of evil. Too many of us really don’t care enough to save ourselves or our posterity. Few are willing to make the sacrifice for the good of humanity. And apathy is what the greed driven power hungry cohort among us depend upon to push through their mindless grab for more wealth and comfort and the expense of everyone. And so, we suffer what we must.
These oil companies should be fined into oblivion. Utter scum.
Fines mean nothing. Nationalize them and prosecute the executives for crimes against humanity
Not $$, PRISON with NO Key!!
Fines are only punishments for us poors. For business, it's a part of doing business. If it's a crime, they need to go to jail. Simple as that.
@@Passionate_Potato Problem is this type of behavior is not illegal in our system. Remember too big to fail? Its a systemic problem that will doom us.
Na they already made huge donations to politicians campaigns politicians won't touch them....
It’s like serial killers: you know there are these people without a conscience out there, but still find it hard to comprehend what they are thinking.
Even though we all know this happens it still makes me so angry when it’s put like this.
Mass murderer pretends he's doing everything legally.
Would be nice to see the complete, unedited footage of the interview. Even if it's mostly boring, and includes the initial manipulation of the interviewee which might make him a sympathetic figure. What matters is that he's telling the truth after all.
I wouldnt be surprised if he actually started all this by saying he hated what he did
Literally evil. There’s no other word for this man
It's not just this guy though - he's just part of a broader system unfortunately.
*this entire industry
Don't do the cliché "shifting a societal issue onto a single scapegoat" thing please, every fucking investor in this industry is the embodiment of pure sociopathic greed.
So did we endanger the planet and help fuel the next mass extection event.
Yes, but to protect our money
This is disgusting on so many levels. Absolute worst of Humanity right here.
Its sad, investments and shareholders are all that matter. Even over the health of fellow citizens and our own children
There should be a senate hearing immediately
"Okay gentlemen, how would you like us to punish Greenpeace for you?"
The lobbyists own anyone that is able to get past a primary election so there is a fat chance of any positive change ever happening from the government. well anything short of a complete ban of corporate lobbying and the complete dismantling of the 2 party primary system that is.
@Scott Luther A mandatory retirement age of 65, as well.
Send them to The Hague. The Senate won’t do anything.
Politicians and CEOs play golf together and discuss how they can make each other wealthy at the cost of everybody else been going on forever!
We need nuremberg trials for these monsters
Make this viral
Channel 4 will always stay in public hands ✊
State hands!
Real Journalism...
People are going to prison or getting snuffed for a pittance, these people get a massage and hard talking to for poisoning OUR environment ;(
If the defense of something you do or did boils down to "technically, not illegal" you are in fact doing evil things. Please do not measure your morality and your impact on the world around you exclusively on the basis of lawful behavior. Sometimes the law is wrong.
It's like watching a cartoonish punch-clock villain.
Except they are lawful evil in real life.
No wonder the Tories were threatening C4 the other week. Follow the money
Democrats should have done something about this ten years ago when they had 60 votes. Now they can barely pass some watered down bill thst will just make sure highways and bridges don’t collapse. They better pass a climate bill through reconciliation after they do this roads and bridges bill.
Even with 60 votes for 17 weeks, you still had some of the same Democrats who oppose this and worry about getting re-elected too much.
"Delay, doubt, deflect." No wonder so many people think Tesla's are more dangerous than ice cars!
electric vehicles are not equitable and still have massive carbon footprints, Telsa now has to import metal 7,000 miles from the goro mine in new caledonia using cargo ships running on oil.
@@Lildizzle420 the previous comment said nothing about them being equitable, but simply that the are not more dangerous. However ICE cars still require metal imported, they also ship far more cargo since the cars are assembled in other countries and then shipped to be sold.The irony is using the term carbon footprint, which itself was coined by a marketing company paid for by BP.
@@JarredSutherland I don't know why you made such an obvious observation about what's being said here, why is it relevant who coined the term "carbon footprint"
Also look at what is by far their biggest success story in Nuclear energy's bad reputation sure it is far from perfect but the evidence shows its actually the safest energy source overall in part because the higher energy density. The hypocrisy is even worse because the extraction of hydrocarbons from the bottom of salt domes brings up large quantities of concentrated heavy radioactive salts which ironically means the fossil fuel industry has "produced" more radioactive waste than every nuclear power plant combined.
lobbying and disinformation combined are a terrifying force of evil.
@@Dragrath1 nuclear is the most regulated in the world and only produces 10% of global energy. right now we nuclear incidents in Hanford, Taishan, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. this is an era of unregulated nuclear energy, you're about to see how "safe" it really is
We need more of this journalism. Thank you. I am sharing this with as many Arizona voters as I can. Kyrsten Sinema no longer represents those who’ve elected her; she has lied to us and no longer deserves to remain in Congress.
I didn't hear about this in the news at all. Thank you. We all knew this was happening at some level, but this is disgusting. F the fossil fuel industry.
Only $117,000 😐 what an amount to sell out for when the entire humanity relies on the planet
What I never understand is how can so many supposedly smart people put the value corporate assets above the needs of the environment. What would these assets be worth after a total climate collapse? The modern corporate culture of greed and short termism has a lot to answer for
You assume they’re smart? Perhaps you should reconsider how you assess intelligence, and try and de-link that concept of intelligence from the dominant narrative of the culture. You might find that those you consider smart may not be so. And those you ignore as such may well turn out to be.
I think they’re banking on being dead by the time anything bad happens to them
When the climate collapses, there will be pockets of people still surviving because of machines which will run on oil.
Hundreds of people died from these heatwaves, I think guys like this should be held directly responsible. There's always a root of the evil.
9 million people die from.climate change every year. they have blood on their hands, as do piliticians
Heat waves are not caused by man. The earth has been naturally heating since the last ice age.
@@denisdaly1708 Adding in early deaths from air pollution would put their kill counts in the hundreds of millions
Exxon-Mobil is following in the footsteps of it's father, Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.
Thank you channel 4 x
My son is in the USA under the Heat Dome he says the roads are littered with burst tires
Good on Channel 4 for making this report. If you google articles related to this you'll find few major news organisations that even cover the story and the ones who do omit large parts of the conversation with McCoy (the Exxon rep. in the video).
Honestly, can anyone explain to me what positive benefits (if there are any) lobbying actually provides in a democracy?
Keeps those in power wealthy, which is also why the lobbying never ends. Quite the system.
Ah yes. Lobbying. Where people with a lot of money have their way in a democracy. Totally not corruption at all.
Right here. This is the MOST important journalism of our time. We MUST vote out of Congress ANY senator that allows Exxon to use them as a tool to spread their blatant lies (which we already knew, but here is self-admitted). **This is the #1 issue**. We KNOW we are headed for catastrophe if we don't take action. And we CAN take action. Please. Call and email the Senators on this list, and if they don't vow to change, vote and campaign against them. And share this video!
These people would destroy an entire contenant and its people just to become super rich
They’re already super rich. They’d destroy a planet so they get to see the mountains of money they’ll never spend get that bit higher.
This video needs MILLIONS of views. People need to know this. I was under the impression Mark Kelly was very progressive, this is a real slap in the face.
I won't forget this.
I pulled the original video and am spreading it through every social media source that I have. This is truly disgusting.
Exxon said his statements (the guy whose job is it to represent company beliefs) do not represent the beliefs on the company and he still has his job.
Nothing changed.
Literally just heard about this just now - the fact that this isn’t bigger news is *damning*
Wow. Great work, Greenpeace.
The most frustrating part is that this has been happening for DECADES... enough is enough.
Do these people not have kids? Grandkids? And they just plain don’t care if their home is on fire.. I would genuinely like to understand this guys justification for knowingly, massively contributing to the irreversible destruction of the planet he’s standing on.
Their paychecks are more important than their kids and grandkids. It works via cognitive dissonance - he knows he earns a living by contributing to the annihilation of his planet, but that's too troubling of a thought, so he blocks it out of his mind and replaces it with a fantasy that global warming is a false alarm.
Why aren't CNN, MSNBC or Fox covering this story? That's the question that everybody should be screaming right now.
They obsess over hot button issues and don't report very much relevant news. I personally find their obsessions over the same stories annoying.
@@GenerationX1984 This is certainly a hot button issue and yet they still don't cover it.
This will go unnoticed and that in itself blows my mind.
American press will not report on this?
People in America needs to know more about this. This kind of things shouldn't be tolerated.
Honestly though, is anyone surprised? An oil company behaves in a despicable and unethical way? ☺️
its hard resisting the urge to punch my monitor
At least the guy was honest......
Guessing Exxon will be parting ways with him soon
He was deceived, that's why he spoke candidly.
This is disgusting!
Wow. So this is STILL happening - I found it happening in China 10-12 years ago, by these same big oil companies, ... and it's still going on.
Unsurprisingly, this guy is still working in the same job. Despite Exxon saying he was lying and doesn't represent Exxon, even though his job is representing Exxon. These companies need to be held responsible for their bullshit.
I thought the same but apparently he was fired in January this year
"I will not ban fracking, I repeat, I WILL NOT BAN FRACKING"
~ Joe Biden
KYJELLY is used to frack gasholes.
It does have SAND, so don't try this at home.
Radha I hope you can appreciate he need to say that to get elected...especially in states like PA. I'm so happy he did too. Another 4 years of Trump would have obliterated the climate and our country. It's a complicated world.
@@brseeger1 Except that he did'nt say it to just get elected, he meant it. It was President Obama after all that was crowned "The King of Fracking" this people care about the environment in superficial ways like banning plastic bags and plastic straws, but not at the core of the issue, because as is evident in this vide THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT POLITICIANS!
@@brseeger1 What would the world be like if we had no climate(s)?
What would the world be like if there were no USA?
AOC says that the world as we know it is ending in less than 10 years. We won't need any climate(s) or even the USA then !!!!!!
The insects will take over and the Earth will be better off !!!!!!!
THAT'S EVOLUTION !!!!!!!!!!!
@@Radhaugo108 Most fracking is done to release NATURAL GAS which is less polluting than COAL.
Now oil lobbies are refusing to increase production to drop prices on the grounds that they don't have the leases while they sit on enough leases to drill unfettered for the next 20 years. At the same exact time they're making record breaking profits and buying new leases.
What this means is what the American voters want, or demand is not relevant to governmental policy passed through legislation and in many instances neither political party can be depended on to do anything for the benefit of the nation as a whole, in fact the possibility of the very land we live on becoming uninhabitable doesn't matter. It seems short term profit is all that matters and the environment and the citizenry be damned. I suppose when it gets so bad they will simply establish an authoritarian state upon those that survive while all these investors and the politicians who are naught but their whores will go and create their own living spaces in the parts of the world not yet totally diminished by Climate Change. Eventually I'm sure they think they can seek refuge off planet where they will dictate their expectations to those down below. And this will be true all across they globe because this Fascism for profit seems to be a global position of the avaricious classes.
What "the people" want is irrelevant. That said, 75% of 'Muricans don't know or care about anything which doesn't affect their hamberders or sportsball.
www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained
People really need to see this
I think I'm gonna throw up.
Please share this video to people you know, videos like these need millions of views, not thousands
How can your defense for doing something reprehensible be "there's nothing illegal about that" when you're the one determining what the laws even are??
Great job, Channel 4.
an underrated piece of investigative political journalism. Very telling, channel 4 are a treasure
How did I only hear about this from RUclips?
OH MY GOD I WILL NEVER GET GAS AT EXXON EVER AGAIN
But you still buy gas?? 😂🤣
That is a good first step that is practical to take. Its impact is small, but it is something you can directly do.
We need a lot more of that kind of reporting, thank you.
I'm sick hearing this, knowing that it happened several months ago and isn't front and center on mainstream news.
Ok so I think its important we recognize the tactics he's using. "Limiting emissions on oil refineries in an infrastructure bill is absurd" i mean... it kind of is. It's something that needs to happen, sure, but it is kinda unrelated to the core subject of the bill. both parties shoehorn unrelated stuff into bills like this. And so knowing the other side is aware of that, it makes it that much easier to catch these congressmen. It just goes to show you how interlinked all these issues are. The entire system is fucked.
you know what fits in a high way bill? a tax on vehicle miles traveled
@@Lildizzle420 Canada taxes fuel for that reason. Does US not do the same ? Do you not also pay for vehicle registration ?
Channel 4 News and ITN doing the good work out here, you absolute legends.
May history look upon these men as men of dishonor and shame. If there is a future..
Greed alone will destroy mankind.
Classic. Good to see these criminals outed. Hopefully these people will end up in prison one day
I hate corporate lobbyists so much I think you should be thrown in jail just for being a corporate lobbyist.
i'm sorry. i try to tell my fellow americans they're clueless...i try. i try.
Illuminating investigative reporting. I’m phucking furious but sadly not surprised.
Insane
Humans do not care about 20 year consequences, only 20 second Tiktoks. We dug our own grave.
Well said.
Complete BS. If we had started the transition 50 years ago there would be no need to subsidies. The oil and gas industry lost a lot of credibility over this video.
US corporate business is shameful
Thanks for this Channel 4 news, but I wonder how many politicians, charities, and influential people who can make changes are watching this and turning a blind eye to it.
😢 And the joke is, “who’s in charge of all this?”
Minute of silence for those who are already sentenced to suffer thanks to climate change denialism through last decades
A village in my country burned down because of this, everyone fled and their homes were destroyed. Some families didn't even make it.
These people should be in jail for their disgusting blocking of any legislation that would help us.
High level disregard..Legal is not same as right / good.. Illegal not always wrong /bad
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Time for a congressional hearing.
I can't believe I missed this when it came out. Commenting to signal boost.
Hopefully this is enough evidence to sue them in court at least for corruption, at best for ecocide.
Lobbyists must he arrested, persecuted and lobbying must be banned and deemed illegal
If we want to significantly reduce C02 emissions then we need to significantly increase and modernize our nuclear reactors. Nuclear energy is the safest, cleanest, and most efficient method for generating power that currently exists. It is far safer than processing and burning fossil fuels. Current Generation III reactors are very safe with an extremely low chance of meltdown. Generation IV reactors are safer still, produce significantly less waste and the waste they do produce is safer. If we engaged in a large scale expansion and development program we could reduce global C02 emission by 75% in under 20 years!
Share this video! Share it and send it to your senators. Let them know we are onto them!!!
More more more investigative journalism !
Thank you.
then they immediately throw their own employee of almost 8 years under the bus is the funniest part. the fact that these huge corporations are allowed to not comment is the WORST part
Commenting to bump in the algorithm. Can't even watch, this stuff upsets me so much. I'm sorry as an American we'll take the rest of the world down with us into ecological collapse.