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Of course, the Warmists who have been using fossil fuels and are mostly refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels are exempt

The fossil fuel industry owes at least $23.2 trillion in reparations for climate change

A new study by the environmental research group One Earth estimates the world’s top fossil fuel companies have emitted around 36% of all global emissions since 1988. That amounts to 403,092 metric tons of CO2 emissions, based on the group’s 2023 analysis that builds on the Carbon Majors 2018 data set.

Have they emitted it themselves or just provided the fuel that runs the world that has created it?

The aim of the study is to provide, for the first time, a methodology to quantify the economic impacts of individual companies’ damage to the climate. Estimates for the reparations are conservative, as they do not take into account factors including lives and livelihoods lost, species extinction, and biodiversity loss.

The impacts disproportionately affect poorer regions: Oxfam estimates that carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% is more than double the emissions of the poorest half of the world.

Global economic damages resulting from the climate crisis are projected to be $99 trillion between 2025 and 2050, and fossil fuel emissions are responsible for $69.6 trillion of that. Around one-third of that number rests on fossil fuel companies, amounting to $23.2 trillion, or $893 billion annually.

So, it’s basically a money grab. A shakedown. One that uses those poor folks as human shields, and, you know they wouldn’t really get the money. It would be siphoned off by government, lawyers, warlords in those 3rd world shitholes, and ‘climate change’ groups.

The top 21 fossil fuel-emitting companies owe $5.4 trillion, or $209 billion annually in reparations (excluding some companies such as those in Venezuela, which the study considers to be in too poor an economic situation to pay). Liability was also halved for producers in Russia, China, Mexico, Brazil and Iraq according to One Earth’s methodology.

Companies in countries that can afford to pay reparations include Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil and gas producer Saudi Aramco, which would owe the most at $43 billion annually, or about a quarter of its $161.1 billion profits in 2022.

In the US, ExxonMobil and Chevron would annually owe $18.4 billion and $12.8 billion respectively. ExxonMobil’s profits in 2022 alone were $56 billion, while Chevron made $35.5 billion in profits.

Yeah, well, good luck getting it. I’d believe this is real if the Warmists gave up their own use of fossil fuels.

Read: Climate Cult Is Looking For $23.2 Trillion From Fossil Fuels Companies »

I have a few ideas for the kiddies that supposedly read this loony tunes outlet

Will Americans Change Their Daily Lives to Acknowledge Climate Change?
This op-ed asks when Americans will be willing to make personal sacrifices for the climate.

What are you willing to give up to offset the impacts of climate change? It’s a question that should keep us all up at night, and it’s one that could depend as much on our nationality as our individual personality.

I’m not willing to give up anything, nor are most people in practice. I don’t lose a minute of sleep

In many ways, the European Union, where I currently live, has taken a leading role on answering this question — in stark contrast to how the United States has reacted. Last month, the European Commission approved what could be a precedent-setting decision from France. The country opted to ban flights between cities that could be reached by train in less than two and a half hours. In the US, that might eliminate plane journeys between major cities like Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The move was actually first proposed by a citizen assembly looking for ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

You live in Europe, so, mind your own f’ing business. Also, remember that private jets for the Elite in France are OK, but, not commercial for the peasants. Perhaps Elizabeth Djinis should ask Biden when he will stop taking fossil fueled flights from D.C. to Delaware. He could drive there in an hour and a half.

Still, the idea of actually forcing consumers’ hand on transit might strike Americans as a regulation that would never work in our country. After all, this is a country that bailed out airlines almost immediately during the pandemic to the tune of more than $50 billion. When it comes to saving corporations, we move fast. When it comes to saving the planet, not so much. While Europe was cementing its Green New Deal plan last summer, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court was issuing a ruling that hampered the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Pray tell, who would be doing the forcing? I love when the Cult of Climastrology shows their hand.

So, it’s not that we don’t care. One major impediment is the way the United States views climate as a partisan issue. In fact, in a survey of 13 countries on 5 continents, the United States had the biggest ideological divide when it came to climate action, according to a 2022 Politico Morning Consult Global Sustainability poll. About 97% of left-leaning voters were concerned about climate change compared to only 51% of those on the right. About 64% of Democrats said the US government was doing too little on climate change, according to the same poll, whereas only 26% of Republicans agreed with that statement.

In other words, you aren’t allowed to have an opinion, you must conform to the climate cult’s dogma and demands. Even though almost no Warmist practices what they preach.

There’s also the fact that America has another value that runs contrary to acting on climate at all — that of personal liberty. Just think of the protests and disputes that broke out across the country when masks were mandated in schools and certain public areas throughout the pandemic. A study of various countries, including Australia, Canada, China, India, and France, showed that the United States was the country second most likely—after Japan—to be unwilling to sacrifice their own rights for public health.

Yes, personal liberty is anathema to the climate cult.

When it comes to climate, Americans seem a little more amenable to the idea of changing their daily lives. A 2021 CBS News poll showed that 58% of Americans said people should do things to shape and change the climate crisis rather than simply learn to adapt and make the best of it. Then again, when asked whether they would pay higher taxes to help stop climate change, 65% said no.

Yet, Warmists do not change their lives. Because saying they’re willing to do so is theoretical, not in practice. I say I should give up bread and ice cream to lose weight. In practice, that ain’t happening.

Our approach to the climate crisis has to be a combination of everything, and there’s no question that corporations must be held accountable. But we live on a planet that needs saving from the very beings who inhabit it. The time has passed to put our own comforts above the mortality of the place we call home.

Or, and I write this respectfully, you can go fuck yourself and mind your own business, Adolph.

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