[Vision2020] Fwd: Science Journal Jan. 2023: Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections

[Ted Moffett]

Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abk0063

One of the co-authors of this Science Journal article is Naomi Oreskes,
also the author of the following book:

(PDF) Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Peder Anker - Academia.edu
<https://www.academia.edu/26440299/Merchants_of_Doubt_How_a_Handful_of_Scientists_Obscured_the_Truth_on_Issues_from_Tobacco_Smoke_to_Global_Warming>

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How did/do they get away with what is arguably criminal behavior, selling a
product to the public their own scientists told them was a problem, while
they deliberately spread doubt about this issue to the public?  Ralph Nader
is so right regarding corporate criminals not facing jail, prison etc.
while the public, law enforecment and the courts obsess on street crime.
I'm not saying "street crime" should not be a major focus, but that
corporate criminals should get the same treatment!
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A few quotes from a May 2022 article by Ralph Nader:

Is Corporate Criminal Law Heading for Extinction? - Ralph Nader
<https://nader.org/2022/05/27/is-corporate-criminal-law-heading-for-extinction/>

All this and much more made up a rare symposium organized by Professor
Diamantis last year at Georgetown Law School. (See:
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/imagining-a-world-without-corporate-criminal-law-symposium/).
He wrote that the “economic impact of corporate crime is at least twenty
times greater than all other criminal offenses combined,” quoting
conservative estimates by the FBI. It’s not just economic, he continued:
“Scholars, prosecutors and courts increasingly recognize that brand name
corporations also commit a broad range of ‘street crimes’: homicide, arson,
drug trafficking, dumping and sex offenses.”

The litany of corporate wrongdoing ranges from polluting the air and
drinking water, dumping microplastics that end up inside human beings,
promoting lethal opioids that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths,
providing millions of accounts or products to customers under false
pretenses or without consent, often by creating false records or misusing
customers’ identities, (Wells Fargo), manufacturing defective motor
vehicles, producing contaminated food, allowing software failures resulting
in crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX’s with 346 deaths. (See, *Why Not Jail?*
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-not-jail/ED681C235B2736F67D0B63FAB6C61A12>
By
Rena Steinzor).

People don’t need law professors to see what’s happening to them and their
children. People laugh when they hear politicians solemnly declare that “no
one is above the law,” extol “the rule of law” and “equal justice under the
law.”
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