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Experts on the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long attempts to deny the reality and consequences of climate change see the same tactics in the Trump administration’s latest actions. President Donald Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” last year during a speech at the United Nations. “Who needs Big Oil to deny climate science, undermine science-based decision-making and endanger peoples’ lives and livelihoods when the U.S. government will do it for them?” asked Geoffrey Supran, director of the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami. 🔗 Read more on our website, linked in our bio ✍️ @lizamgross 📸 Getty Images

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@young_forest83 It’s past time to seize the assets of the deceptive, complicit ceos, investors and politicians who have profited from this man made crisis. Those who lied to safeguard their self interest and private profits. Those who see public wellbeing as collateral damage. Privatising their gains and socialising their impacts. This is called predatory capitalism and key participants include @exxonmobil @bp_plc @shell @chevron @totalenergies @aramco

September 15, 2026 · 2 likes