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World's 10 Worst Corporations

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  • 04-01-2002 8:28am
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    Full article here

    My favourite bit:

    ExxonMobil:
    King of Global Warming Denial
    You know a company is behaving badly when it starts getting cuffed around by the public relations industry.

    That’s why it was so notable in May when O’Dwyer’s, the leading rag of the PR industry, criticized “ExxonMobil’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the fact that burning fossil fuels has a role in global warming.”

    Climate change, now accepted by scientific consensus as fact and acknowledged by virtually all reputable scientists to be underway, poses enormous environmental, human health and economic threats in coming decades.

    Among other consequences: rising tides due to polar icecap melting are expected to submerge entire island nations and vast swaths of coastal lands; changing temperatures are expected to contribute to the spread of deadly tropical diseases; extreme weather events are expected to become much more frequent; and countless species are facing endangerment due to rapid shifts in local weather patterns.

    Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil are a leading contributor to the problem of climate change.


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