Global Big Energy Unmasked

[Star Man]

Dear Victims Living in Northern California,

This study identifies the 90 polluters that are responsible for 63% of the CO2 emissions that are frying the planet. These companies are all driven by profit. These companies control the nations in which they operate. There's yet another global warming summit going on in Warsaw right now, and activists have walked out because the event is corporatized and controlled by these very 90 companies. These corporations are driven solely by profit. Because they are corporations and not people, they do not fear death because they cannot die, they lack a spiritual connection to Our Mother the Earth, and they have no compassion.
These corporations have warmed the planet to the point that the arctic ice sheet has melted which means the methane that has safely lain on the ocean floor beneath the ice sheet is being released and will push the planet over the tipping point. Thom Hartman's 10 minute video, "The Last Hours of Humanity," reports these facts. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_IklxOK1Vc
We human beings have been stripped of our power. Big Energy corporations harvest us humans like a crop for our dollars, our labor, and our attention (Big Media harvests our attention through television, social media, and smart phones). Big Energy has bought and consumed the political process and now Big Politics represents the interests of Big Energy and the rest of the corporatocracy against the interests of We The People. Big Military and Big Defense have extended the reach of the corporatocracy to the entire globe, and Big Surveillance watches for resistance so it can bomb it or infiltrate it or assassinate it before it threatens the corporatocracy.

Star Man


Downloaded November 21, 2013 from https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/21-0

Published on Thursday, November 21, 2013 by Common Dreams Naming Names: The 90 Companies Destroying Our Planet


Analysis highlights the small number of profit-driven entities that are driving us towards destruction, but can a climate revolution from below challenge their rule?

- Jon Queally, staff writer

ChevronTexaco was the leading emitter among investor-owned companies, causing 3.5% of greenhouse gas emissions to date, with Exxon not far behind at 3.2%. In third place, BP caused 2.5% of global emissions to date. (Guardian)Narrow it down to the real power-brokers and decision-makers—the CEO's of fossil fuel companies or the energy ministers from the largest petro-states—says climate researcher Richard Heede, and the actual individuals most responsible for the political world's continued refusal to address the planetary crisis of climate change "could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two."
In a newly compeleted study by Heede and his colleagues at the Climate Accountability Institute, their analysis shows that a mere 90 companies, some private and some state-owned, account for a full two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions that are now driving perilous rates of global warming.
Offered in advance to the Guardian newspaper, which created an interactive representation of the study's findings, the report comes as climate negotiators from around the world continue talks in Warsaw, Poland this week in the latest (what looks so far like a failed) attempt to solidify an emissions agreeement designed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change this century.
As the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg reports:

Between them, the 90 companies on the list of top emitters produced 63% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 to 2010, amounting to about 914 gigatonne CO2 emissions, according to the research. All but seven of the 90 were energy companies producing oil, gas and coal. The remaining seven were cement manufacturers.
The list of 90 companies included 50 investor-owned firms – mainly oil companies with widely recognised names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP , and Royal Dutch Shell and coal producers such as British Coal Corp, Peabody Energy and BHP Billiton.
Some 31 of the companies that made the list were state-owned companies such as Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco, Russia's Gazprom and Norway's Statoil.
Nine were government run industries, producing mainly coal in countries such as China, the former Soviet Union, North Korea and Poland, the host of this week's talks.

Though the global public has been flooded with one scientific research paper after another warning of the perils of not addressing the role of carbon emissions, experts agree that the political will on the state, national, and global level has simply not been created.
The reason for that, of course, is the stranglehold that the very profitable fossil fuel companies—whether state-owned entities or private corporations—retain on the political systems within which they operate. At the global level, that political system is known as the United Nations, but so far the talks taking place in Warsaw are seeing almost no progress on a deal. On Wednesday, the world's poorest nation's walked out of the COP19 talks and the wealthiest nations—including the US, Canada, Australia, and the EU states—showing less and less courage despite the increasingly dire warnings from experts and scientists.

Continues at https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/21-0