• ValpoYAFF [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Watch the video. The headline claim is that oil companies would never have stopped selling oil and the public would never have stopped buying it no matter how much information was out there - it does not actually deny that oil companies knew about climate change very early on. Less than a minute into the video Sabine starts blaming oil companies for climate change denial misinformation. It’s just a clickbait title.

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      The headline claim is that oil companies would never have stopped selling oil and the public would never have stopped buying it no matter

      the public would never have stopped buying

      no matter how much information was out there

      clickbait title.

      thirty episodes of the-podcast in the gulag for you

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      but isn’t blaming oil companies for misinformation a far less strong accusation if you preface it by saying that publicly available information just doesn’t matter in this case?