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Focusing on societal choices while trying to limit those
choices is poor long-term risk management
ExxonMobil argues that
meaningful decreases in Scope 3
emissions will require "changes in
society's energy choices coupled
with the development and
deployment of affordable lower-
emission technologies"
• This is true, but ignores its role in
influencing such choices
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More importantly, this argument
fails to acknowledge that such
choices are changing, and that
trying to restrict or confuse such
choices - versus adapting to them
- likely only makes eventual
business disruption more severe
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"All told, ExxonMobil has spent more than $37
million on climate science denier organizations from
1998 through 2019."
Union of Concerned Scientists, Oct. 23, 2020
"Groups backed by industry giants like Exxon Mobil... are
waging a state-by-state, multimillion-dollar battle
to squelch utilities' plans to build [EV] charging stations
across the country."
Politico, Sept. 16, 2019
"[T]he American Progressive Bag Alliance ... part of the
Plastics Industry Association, a trade group that includes
Shell Polymers, LyondellBasell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron
Phillips, DowDuPont, and Novolex ... was backing a state
bill that would strip Tennesseans of their ability to address
the plastics crisis. The legislation would make it illegal for
local governments to ban or restrict bags and other single-
use plastic products one of the few things shown to
actually reduce plastic waste."
Intercept, July 20, 2019
ExxonMobil quote source: ExxonMobil Press Release, Dec. 14, 2020. Other quote sources: Elliott Negin (Oct. 23, 2020). ExxonMobil Is Still Bankrolling
Climate Science Deniers. Union of Concerned Scientists. Gavin Bade (Sep. 16, 2019). The oil industry vs. the electric car. Politico. Sharon Lerner (Jul. 20,
2019). Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World. The Intercept.
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