If Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is elected, he vows to prosecute oil and gas leaders.
It’s what he pledged in a recent tweet, saying he would hold fossil fuel executives accountable after climate scientists expressed alarm over ExxonMobil’s projection of zero overall reduction in industrial emissions by 2040.
“Here’s a prediction: we are going to win, pass a Green New Deal, and criminally prosecute the fossil fuel executives who destroyed the planet,” Sanders said, in a tweet responding to an article published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—keepers of the Doomsday Clock.
Bernie Sanders✔@BernieSanders
Here’s a prediction: we are going to win, pass a Green New Deal, and criminally prosecute the fossil fuel executives who destroyed the planet. https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1207310910827716609 …
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ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy predicts “no reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector through 2040—and no date at which emissions reach net zero”
They are openly admitting they have no intention of trying to slow climate change.https://thebulletin.org/2019/12/fossil-fuel-companies-claim-theyre-helping-fight-climate-change-the-reality-is-different/ …
“They are betting that global temperatures will rise well above the Paris Agreement targets,” said the Bulletin report of the fossil fuel companies. “For example, in ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy, the company projects no reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector through 2040—and no date at which emissions reach net zero, implying indefinite warming,”
Source: Newsweek
