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As a 21-year-old trying to build my own life and career, I am simultaneously overrun with anxiety and overwhelmed with grief and fear about what little promise there is for a future on Earth. It’s SO easy to let fear take over and think there’s nothing much I can do: if this was REALLY as big as they say it is, surely someone would do something. But that’s exactly the problem, the people we’re supposed to look to for direction in times of need are utterly blinded by greed and money. For so long we’ve all been following what the media and news fed us, while staying in the dark about the realities of climate change and global warming. Meanwhile, the ones who hold the highest office of the United States and who were sworn to make the best choices on our behalf have ultimately betrayed us. I found it so interesting that my grandmother wove her life story around the story of climate change. It was powerful having the anecdotes in which she was buying a car or doing some other, rather ordinary task, while unbeknownst to her the big oil industries were working to cover up any word of climate change. Now she shows me how vital it is that those of us who understand the magnitude of the crisis take action so that, hopefully, we will be able to outweigh the actions of those impeding our progress.”
–Channing Pooley, Author’s Granddaughter
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By the beginning of the 2000s, the efforts by climate change denial groups were recognized as an organized campaign. Taking a page from the tobacco campaign, these propagandists began receiving funding from oil companies. ExxonMobil led in corporate donations to these think tanks, and between 1998 and 2014 gave nearly 31 million dollars to groups that would deliberately spread climate misinformation.
The ideologically conservative Koch brothers, with their massive petrochemical business interests, donated more than $100 million from 1997 onward to 84 groups promulgating climate denial, all shielded from public scrutiny through financial vehicles known as Donors’ Trusts.
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