Corporate denial on climate change

[Paul Cherubini]

Roger C. KENDRICK wrote:

> The denial industry
> The oil giant ExxonMobil gives money to scores of 
> organisations that claim the science on global warming 
> is inconclusive - which it isn't. It's a strategy that has 
> set back action on climate change by a decade

ExxonMobil might fire back and say the bird and butterfly
conservation societies have "set back action on climate 
change by a decade" because their own leaders and members
have been consuming more and more fossil fuels via buying 
larger and larger homes and cars in recent decades.

Since Earth Day 1975, for example, the average size of a new
home in the USA has increased 50% even though the average
size of a family has declined.  And cars are now substantially 
larger, heavier, and much more powerful, on average, than they 
were in 1980 and very few have gasoline saving manual 
transmissions.  

Visit the website of any bird and butterfly conservation 
society and you won't find one advocating that their
own members and leaders downsize their homes and
cars to curb fossil fuel use.  Al Gore himself owns four
homes that have a combined total of 15,000 square feet 
(1/3 of an acre) of interior space.

Paul Cherubini

 
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