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Big Oil’s Long Con: Decades of Lies, Billions in Profit, and a Never-Ending Appetite for Public Land
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Big Oil’s Long Con: Decades of Lies, Billions in Profit, and a Never-Ending Appetite for Public Land

They Knew. They Lied. They’re Still Cashing In.

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For more than 50 years, Big Oil has known exactly what its business model would cost the planet. Exxon’s scientists warned of global warming in the 1970s. Chevron, Shell, and BP all had the data. They didn’t just predict climate change; they mapped it out in detail.

And then they buried it.

Instead of leading the transition to cleaner energy, they chose p…

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