Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie
We've got a big ol' task ahead of us and it's important to start our collective engines (figurative, not literal) on reducing our government's fossil fuel use. It's going to take an effort on the scale of the new deal (but like a ... I dunno, green one or something) and we'll need to keep climate change front of mind for the foreseeable future if we want to have a shot of pressuring corporations and government into doing the right thing.
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Sources & Citations
Big Oil’s Denial of Climate Change via Merchants of Doubt (get the whole book, or even watch the movie, they’re both great, but here’s an excerpt): https://ncse.ngo/files/pub/evolution/Excerpt--merchants.pdf
This Mashable article about how BP made the Carbon Footprint that came out in the middle of me making this video and was a gift from whatever theologically specific supreme being you believe in: https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham/
BP Leaks 200 Million Gallons of Oil in 2010 - we all remember when that happened and holy shit it was bad. I was working at a Boy Scout camp and this kid was doing a running tall of how much oil had spilled into the water and I was like, ‘there’s no way it’s that much.” It was that much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
MIT’s Carbon Calc: https://news.mit.edu/2008/footprint-tt0416
Dr. Geoffrey Supran and Dr. Naomi’s analysis of how big oil spreads disinformation: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f
Just an example of how big oil does intentionally misleading hackjobs to attack actual researchers looking into big oil: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/climate/exxon-global-warming-science-study.html
BP being deceptive: https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/01/29/bp-first-global-advertising-campaign-deepwater-horizon-accused-greenwashing-deceptive
An advertising exec involved in the Campaign who literally describes generating the idea and a bunch of nice, high-res images of the campaign: https://www.behance.net/gallery/18035393/BP-Corporate (http://kjbowen.com/clients/bp/)
Episode Credits
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