As fossil fuel executives join the rest of us currently choking on the ash of old growth forests being consumed in the apocalyptic conflagra
THEY KNEW the earth would burn and they let it. The air you’re choking on, the floods that Pakistani children died in, the heat waves and wildfires and drought and hurricanes all the rest of it was first suspected, then known, then known with certainty by the fossil fuel companies — and they just let it happen. Worse, they actively misinformed the world about the emergency. Surely, when the extent of the destruction they have knowingly wrought on our planet is fully accounted for, we will conclude there is no crime in human history (and yes, I am familiar with the catalog of horrific crimes of human history) greater than what has been perpetrated by these executives — banal in conduct, evil in effect — just to make a buck. THEY KNEW — and surely we must demand — when the smoke clears — that these criminals be brought to justice? Because while in our current legal system, it may be the case that destroying the planet in the name of profit is not a chargeable offense; nevertheless an organized campaign to hold the occupants of these executive suites accountable — criminally accountable — for what they’re doing and what they have done would be...let’s say clarifying to their minds. But whether this happens or not, we must never forget that this unfolding catastrophe is not an unfortunate accident — it was a deliberate act. That THEY KNEW.
