READ MORE:* Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades: Now they may pay the price* Climate crimes: Will you be found guilty? By downplaying the urgency of the climate crisis, the industry has new tools to delay efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions. “And yet the climate movement seems to only focus on the science denial part.”Oil companies stopped pushing overt climate denial more than a decade ago. Lamb and collaborators Giulio Mattoli and Julia Steinberger began compiling the fossil fuel messaging they saw repeatedly on social media. “The social justice argument is the one we’re seeing used the most,” he says.

Source: Stuff September 16, 2021 21:33 UTC