Drilled Podcast: Using Oil To Take over A Nation

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3 min readMar 20

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The first episode of season eight of Drilled by Amy Westervelt has a long comet’s tail of sordid climate history related to oil companies and their decades-long misinformation campaigns.

Projections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were uncannily accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and…

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