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Right now, here is the audio cast of the Power of Big Oil, Part 1.

For more than 150 years, oil and gas has played a critical role in our society,

improving human lives, raising standards of living, and enabling unprecedented economic growth.

What do you do when your industry can no longer exist without creating catastrophe's worldwide?

The impacts of climate change are intensified. It's important to understand the past.

You can't understand where you are if you don't know how you got there.

In a special three-part series, the epic story of our failure to tackle climate change.

On the roll of the fossil fuel industry.

The big oil, no-elie-fred disinformation.

Now, in Part 1, what big oil knew about climate change more than 40 years ago?

The fact that Exxon had been doing rigorous, pure-viewed research in the 80s was staggering to me.

There were uncertainties, but it certainly was when, how fast?

And what happened as the science became more certain?

Scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect the global climate.

So there's simply no reason to take drastic action now.

They realized that it was going to be an existential threat to their business,

but they made a deeply unethical decision to try to obfuscate the reality.

We continue to maintain a position that is involved with science and is today consistent with the science.

We won't solve the climate crisis unless we solve the misinformation crisis.

The power of big oil, Part 1, denial.

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