Hot News: ExxonMobil Worked To Shift Climate Blame To Individual Consumers

ExxonMobil used tobacco industry messaging strategies to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers, despite its knowledge of the harms caused by its product, a new study from Harvard researchers found. Using computer learning to analyze 40 years of ExxonMobil climate materials, researchers found a “quantitative discrepancy” between the company’s internal documents, which reflected the science, and external communications, which shifted blame for climate change onto individual consumers.

Sources: TIME, Vox, InsideClimate News, Axios, E&E

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Originally published by Nexus Media.