Exxon CEO speaks

[Allcanadian]

Exxon CEO proclaims --

'What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?'

'What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?': Exxon CEO | The Hook

Billions of poor people will remain in poverty longer if humankind attempts to cool the climate by lessening its dependancy on oil, the CEO of Exxon Mobil said this week.

"What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?" asked Rex Tillerson at the oil company's annual meeting in Dallas, Texas.

Exxon Mobil earned $44.9 billion in profits during 2012, and was recently deemed by Forbes to be the planet's fifth largest corporation (a slip from last year, when it was ranked number one).

At the annual meeting this week CEO Tillerson opposed a resolution from environmental shareholders demanding the company set goals for shrinking its carbon footprint.

The resolution was defeated nearly 3-to-1 in a shareholder vote, reported the Associated Press.

Shareholders also voted down a resolution officially banning discrimination against homosexuals -- one Exxon's board deemed redundant because the company broadly opposes discrimination already.

Tillerson is considered slightly more moderate on environmental issues than his predecessor, Lee Raymond, who publicly disputed the science behind climate change.

Still, Tillerson last summer argued that humankind will "adapt" to global warming, and that there are "much more pressing priorities."

Such comments were the reason environmental author and activist Bill McKibben called Tillerson the most "reckless man on the planet" in a viral Rolling Stone essay.

He sounds like an uneducated half-wit in my opinion and if this is any indication of the level of intelligence of corporate America they are most definitely screwed. As well the shareholders basically voted 3 to 1 against making any effort to reduce there carbon emissions.

I think the sheer level of ignorance, extremism and igotism here is simply mind boggling. In my opinion these people are clinically insane and we should make no mistake that they will do whatever it takes to maintain their sacred profit margins.
My choice is to never buy another product from nor relating to this company ever again...period. Check the label then just say NO.

AC

[Allcanadian]

FYI
Exxon related companies

Aera Energy
Corringham Light Railway
Enco (oil company)
Esso
Esso Australia
Exxon
Exxon Neftegas
Friendswood Development Company
Hefty
Humble Oil
Hunt Petroleum
Imperial Oil
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Mobil
Mobil Producing Nigeria
On the Run (convenience store)
RasGas
SeaRiver Maritime
Superior Oil Company
Syncrude
Total Petroleum Ghana
Vacuum Oil Company
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XTO Energy

[Allcanadian]

Climate criminal number one — Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson

Climate criminal number one — Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson - AMERICAblog News

[dR-Green]

He sounds like an uneducated half-wit in my opinion and if this is any indication of the level of intelligence of corporate America they are most definitely screwed. As well the shareholders basically voted 3 to 1 against making any effort to reduce there carbon emissions.

I think the sheer level of ignorance, extremism and igotism here is simply mind boggling. In my opinion these people are clinically insane and we should make no mistake that they will do whatever it takes to maintain their sacred profit margins.
My choice is to never buy another product from nor relating to this company ever again...period. Check the label then just say NO.

AC

Find a BBC Horizon episode called "Are You Good Or Evil?". Series 50 Episode 5.

The majority of people high up in business, politics, influential positions in general match the profile of a psychopath. That's a scientific fact.

What makes us good or evil? It's a simple but deeply unsettling question. One that scientists are now starting to answer.

Horizon meets the researchers who have studied some of the most terrifying people behind bars - psychopathic killers.

But there was a shock in store for one of these scientists, Professor Jim Fallon, when he discovered that he had the profile of a psychopath. And the reason he didn't turn out to be a killer holds important lessons for all of us.

We meet the scientist who believes he has found the moral molecule and the man who is using this new understanding to rewrite our ideas of crime and punishment.

BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, Are You Good or Evil?

[Allcanadian]

@dR-Green

The majority of people high up in business, politics, influential positions in general match the profile of a psychopath. That's a scientific fact.

I would agree and I have spent many years studying psychology to understand why people do the things they do as well as why I do. The common thread to people we consider "bad" is that all are self-centered/egomaniacs and there is a complete lack of consideration for others. There is also a complete lack of self-reflection in regards to their beliefs and actions.

It is also well known that patriotism/nationalism can be substituted for being self-centered as the focus is now a group acting as one, ie.. a self-centering group, Gustav LeBon-"The Crowd : A study of the popular mind". As such they are able to justify almost anything no matter how morally despicable because they act as a group and no one person is accountable not unlike a corporation or government.

Essentially the corporate and government/military club is a way for people to act out their aggressions, frustrations and/or feelings of inadequacy without accountability because they act within what is considered to be an "entity".

Think of it this way, if I was a roofer and did a crappy job then you could sue me. However if I start a corporation then I am untouchable and there is nothing you could do to me personally because I am simply an employee. The best you could do is sue my company which is nothing more than an entity. This is how morally bankrupt people avoid accountability, they hide behind the skirt of an entity such as a corporation or government.

In any case you are correct in stating they are psychopaths however in a sense so are we because when we know what they do then do nothing in response we are complicit in their actions.

AC

[dR-Green]

In any case you are correct in stating they are psychopaths however in a sense so are we because when we know what they do then do nothing in response we are complicit in their actions.

Exactly, it's a game. In order for the game to proceed people must choose a side, "good" or "evil". It doesn't occur to people to stop playing. Instead they act out their part and make the whole thing possible.

Although I would say that "we" are not psychopaths, "we" play the part of being the victims of the psychopaths. They both need each other for either one to exist. The fact of the matter is that the population stand for the atrocities that they see. When the masses no longer consider it to be acceptable behaviour, the game will come to an end.

The same applies to "electing" a leader, he takes the responsibility of the mess that ensues, so the population don't have to accept the reality of their role in the whole thing, that they empowered the people who do these things. Then they believe they must "fight" this power that they themselves created, through protesting in the streets or whatever nonsense that sustains the illusion of "opposite sides" playing against each other. They missed the plot entirely.

The truth was put in plain sight in the film V For Vendetta; "If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror."

[Allcanadian]

@dR-Green
That may be the best summation I have heard to date, great post.

My choice has been to opt out and speak up, rejecting the consumer hype and making responsible choices as to what I need to purchase and from whom. I also bought an acreage, free food, free water, almost free windpower and this year a more reliable hydropower system. I'm on the grid but this was never an all or nothing proposition but rather just trying to make a difference because I can.
As well as speaking up as in this post when I see things that I find offensive and think others should be aware of. Exxon is now on my boycott list and I intend to stick to it as a matter of principal for no other reason than I can. We all have choices and it isn't all that difficult to start making better ones.

AC