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How Big Oil Is Manipulating the Way You Think About Climate Change
14 May 2023 | Abstracted from Salon
"the gamekeeper ran across the trail ahead of them, dragging a gunny sack of red herrings...
"...the idea of a carbon footprint calculator was first invented by the geniuses at British Petroleum - not to encourage conservation, but to focus consumers' attention on their own emissions and distract their attention from the incomparably greater emissions of the industry itself.
"Another example of this subterfuge, also from the fossil fuel, is the idea of carbon sequestration."
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