Climate Week 2024: Finally Tackling the Mad Men of Big Oil

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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We first released our "Mad Men of Big Oil" season on all the pro-fossil fuel propaganda that came before climate denial, and the role the PR industry has played in helping various polluting industries shape our ideas around the economy, the environment, and the relationship between the two back in January 2020. It inspired various campaigns to clean up the industry and in 2024, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres specifically referenced the need to hold these "Mad Men fueling climate disaster" to account. At this year's Climate Week we did a special live version of this season, and figured it was a good time to re-up it. It's evergreen, and people are talking about it more and more these days. Check your feeds for Season 3 to listen to the rest! Ad Note: The first 150 of you will receive the first month of a Planet Wild membership from me for free. Click on this link https://planetwild.com/drilled, or use the code DRILLED9 later. Not satisfied anymore? You can cancel at any time. If you want to see how Planet Wild works first, check out their latest YouTube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPbCjH45uwI&t=2s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to drilled I'm Amy Lestervell.
0:08.0	This week I'm at Climate Week in New York.
0:12.0	It's strangely the first time I've ever been to Climate Week.
0:16.0	I've been covering Climate for 20 plus years now.
0:21.0	It's been an interesting mix so far, but last night we did a live event
0:27.2	version of our Mad Men season and there's been a lot of talk this week at Climate Week about the
0:34.7	madmen of big oil because UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has been
0:41.5	calling for these madmen to be held to account.
0:45.0	So I figured it was a good time to reprise our season on this subject.
0:50.5	This season initially debuted in 20 and it came about because
0:54.5	We had done this initial season on the history of climate denial and the more I looked into it the more I realized that there had to be something else going on that this could not
1:06.8	have worked as well as it did as quickly as it did if there wasn't something there. The strategy of climate denial is not that brilliant.
1:16.3	And as I started looking for answers, I talked to a lot of scholars like Dr. Robert
1:21.2	Proul at Brown,
1:23.1	Melissa Aronchek at Rutgers, lots of folks.
1:26.5	And the more I learned about the way
1:29.0	that pro-fossil fuel propaganda
1:31.3	had been shaped, the more it all made sense.
1:33.9	That season focused on key figures in the PR industry,
1:37.8	but the fossil fuel industry has worked
1:39.4	to shape information in general from all sides. You heard our episode last week on
1:44.4	university research, that's one way. You heard us talk to Maddie Stone earlier in the
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