Right now oil companies are at an inserted stage before oops which is "it's too hard and too late to do anything about it now, we're all doomed anyway"
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The one from Total lately is more subtle: climate change is real and humans cause it, but there's still an increasing demand for fossil fuel, so we answer it (would rather buy more from the Russians?), by opening new wells we keep it affordable for the people (do you want yellow jackets again?).
It would be nice to at least have a plan to one day be immune to oil price chaos and geopolitical fights surrounding distant oil wells. And day now...
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There is the doomerism timeline. "Well, it's too late now, no reason to change anything now!".
Doomerism is just an evolution of binary thinking.
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You missed "Climate change is real and caused by humans but it's the responsibility of individuals to fix it."
"It's not the company's fault that you didn't recycle. Grow up!"
Why should our profits go down to save the world?
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