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EPISODE · Oct 10, 2022 · 31 MIN

Big Oil’s climate denial started 63 years ago and cost the world $220 billion! 

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Matt and Nick cover one story today: Adetokunbo Abiola’s substack publication about how big oil companies could have changed the course of the climate crisis 63 years ago!The article gets into a few other topics that the guys talk about, including what it will take to break up big oil, what big oil can do next, and how shareholder activism will likely increase with the reality of ongoing climate change.Adetokunbo is a Nigerian journalist who writes about the global dimensions of climate change and how climate change impacts people.Source material for today’s episode: Big Oil companies could have helped stop climate change not 30 but 63 years ago (substack.com)The future of oil and gas is now: How companies can decarbonize | McKinsey‘Abolish these companies, get rid of them’: what would it take to break up big oil? | Environment | The GuardianWant To Stop Climate Change? Buy Big Oil Stock (forbes.com)

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