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take their money and arrest those responsible (feddit.org)
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It's worth stating that this is showing just the private company contributions (private as in not owned by national governments). State-owned oil companies of various nations contribute massively as well, so beyond the bribes lobbying problem there's a direct conflict of interest for many nations that get a substantial amount of revenue from those state-owned oil companies.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Exactly. Don’t spare the governments.

    in fact this is in the lead of the shell wikipedia page:

    Measured by both its own emissions, and the emissions of all the fossil fuels it sells, Shell was the ninth-largest corporate producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1988–2015.

    Which makes the graph sort of misleading. Nationalising or abolishing shell wouldn’t solve the problem. It might help, but we need wayy wayyy wayyyy more than that.

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