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An oil giant just dragged Donald Trump over the climate crisis. What f*cking rabbit hole is this?

Oil giant ExxonMobil has spoken out against President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. This is leaving many of us questioning the future of human existence:

ExxonMobil just ratioed… Donald Trump?

You know we’re in very deep shit when an oil giant warns about the climate crisis; you know – the one it helped create, and then tried to cover up?

If Trump has lost the fossil fuel lobby before he has even taken office, he has a major problem:

On Tuesday 12 November, DeSmog published ‘unearthed documents’ which revealed that 70 years ago, the Air Pollution Foundation warned big oil companies that fossil fuel emissions could impact civilisation.

The new documents show how the industry – like ExxonMobil – used deceptive PR strategies they came up with in California, to deny the risk of the climate crisis. It’s hard to believe that now, 70 years later – big oil has decided to grow a conscience.

Goodbye beach front houses

Maybe oil giants like ExxonMobil are realising we are past the point of repair. More likely though, they have watched the recent hurricanes destroy Florida and realised the next one might destroy their beach front houses pretty soon. What a terrible shame that would be:

Guaranteed climate destruction. And because of what? Americans didn’t want a woman of colour running the country?

You might regret that choice pretty soon – if you don’t already. Google searches for ‘can I change my vote’ spiked several times between 5-7 November. The highest number of these searches came from Iowa, where Trump won by 13 points.

Unsurprisingly, states with similar high search interest include Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin—all states won by Trump:

It’s pretty hypocritical that the literal criminals who have ensured the destruction of our planet are now speaking up. 20 years ago would have been nice, ExxonMobil:

Clearly, its a performative move. Whatever the case, it’s not going to change Trump’s climate crisis denial:

On a more positive note – at least Trump’s place in Florida will be one of the first places to be destroyed when sea levels inevitably rise. He also won’t have to use as much fake tan as temperatures keep increasing.

Whatever ExxonMobil is up to with this public statement – performative or not, it is clear that we are on a sure path to climate destruction unless we take drastic action, immediately.

Feature image via the Canary

By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.