This is greenwashing. Exxon knows the Paris Agreement is not legally binding and that the UNFCCC is toothless. They know that staying in the Agreement will not compel Trump to change his drill, baby, drill agenda one whit. What they fear is a public backlash and revival of the climate movement. - ThreadSky

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doctorvive.bsky.social • 105 days ago

This is greenwashing. Exxon knows the Paris Agreement is not legally binding and that the UNFCCC is toothless. They know that staying in the Agreement will not compel Trump to change his drill, baby, drill agenda one whit.

What they fear is a public backlash and revival of the climate movement.

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savantfoxt.bsky.social•105 days ago

For them it's all about optics, not facts.

sbisinger.bsky.social•105 days ago

Spot on. And it's working: I've seen plenty of people believe Exxon had some kind of moment of enlightenment or something

grimace82.bsky.social•105 days ago

The "enlightening" is they see some type of business opportunity.

Their expertise is in building & operating huge scale chemical processing facilities. I'm betting they see an opportunity in the green hydrogen group of products.

duenorth1.bsky.social•103 days ago

Unlike the rest of tRumps ilk, they know history, they study the climate future and are paused by extreme imbalances.

grimace82.bsky.social•105 days ago

Exxon likely view the 🇺🇸 Government breaking its word on international agreements as more detrimental to their overall business interests than it would be beneficial.

jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social•105 days ago

Exxon knows that the renoobles industry demands vast quantities of diesel fuel and gasoline, particularly diesel. They don't want that market to end.

aemme.bsky.social•105 days ago

not to mention the money they expect from "carbon capture and sequestration" unicorn-like technology

cronfest.bsky.social•105 days ago

exactly. We need to ever vigilant for the smoke and mirrors who helped his supporters doom us. Don't allow yourself to be manipulated into complacency

mrchompchomp.bsky.social•105 days ago

That oil companies can’t be trusted is as much a fact as climate change itself.

doctorvive.bsky.social•105 days ago

truth

jotatx.bsky.social•105 days ago

oh, that makes sense.
agreed.

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