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Ah, the title is so full of it it's so much fun.  :)    
The good news is that Deathwing will be even more difficult in his next appearance.
Never forget the 2010 BP oil spill >

I'll never forget politicians (and the president at the time) deliberately getting the name of the company wrong to protect the American banks that own BP. >

What did they call it? >

British Petroleum.
It's actually an American owned company called Beyond Petroleum. >

Uh.. what?

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company plc and BP Amoco plc) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. >

Its HQ is in England.
It's owned by State Street (US), BlackRock (US), Dimensional Fund Advisors (US), Fisher Investments (US), and Menora Mivtachim (Israel). >

Ah fair enough. As majority stakeholders, they can definitely control the direction the company takes. >

Anyone who thinks oil and gas companies will voluntarily do anything beyond lip service for preventing climate change is an idiot. 
They will only act if they are forced to do so, and the only entity that has the power to force them to do so is government. >

All of that except it applies to ALL companies. >

It applies to ALL people. >

Nah, fuck that. Not everyone is a secret sociopath, dude. We normal humans have this thing called empathy that is real and isn’t something we are pretending to have. I didn’t go visit my aunt on her deathbed because I was paying some lip service or had some profit motive.
What a shitty worldview. Fuck corporations and their moral bankruptcy, absolutely, but fuck that cynical nihilistic bullshit too. There are good people in this world. >

empathy is a muscle. It isn't something that just happens at a 100% between people all of the time. Most people have, in no way, genuine empathy for others beyond their immediate knowledge. Its only for people within "arms reach" like friends and family.
It takes  incredible effort to be able to empathize beyond "arms reach" for the average person. And Empathy Fads don't count. Like for the next couple of weeks you'll see some disaster response empathy for earthquake hit areas, but that will fade once it is no longer fashionable, and people will slowly forget the burden of others. 
If empathy was so natural and easy to use, we wouldn't have homelessness, we wouldn't have starvation, we wouldn't think twice about just doing all it takes to create free medicine even if that meant slaving away personally to get the materials needed. It isn't just the sociopaths that stop this, its normal every day people who, because they need comfort in their own lives, let go of wider empathy in order to obtain it. That is not to say that people can not be trained, but we can not rely on a majority of people to do the right thing when doing the wrong thing is just so much easier. >

So, for so many people, greed trump's empathy. >

It's mostly that comfort trumps empathy for average, everyday people. So for example, take Shelf Cost.
Shelf Cost is the price a person pays when they walk into a market and look at an item on the shelf, they go "oh how nice, this battery powered fan is real cheap and I want to be cool on hot days, I will buy this fan." That person in no way thinks about the actual, real cost of that fan. They don't stop and go, "the plastics were made in a community that doesn't have regulation for spillages into watersheds by the industry that makes the plastic. The battery was mined using child labor because that community doesn't have rules against it. The motor inside that spins the blades was made in  a place where fumes are let into the air by the factory that produces the metal".  They don't think about all the carbon emissions it took to transport that fan parts, and then assemble the fan and ship the fan to the market they buy it from. A person just thinks "a fan for 9.99 with good reviews, I will buy this fan because I want it."
People want to be comfortable, they want to be cool during the hot days, so they buy the fan without putting any empathy into that decision. Its not greedy to want to be cool on a hot day.
Greed is another beast on its own. >

Greed is the beast that created that morally terrible but somehow cheap fan. >

All the money in the world means nothing when there is no world left. >

The people running these companies don't give a shit because they know they'll be dead before the shit really hits the fan and actually impacts people like them. >

Agree. And their grandchildren and our grandchildren mean nothing. >

I guess that sociopaths don't care about their grandchildren too much.
Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I would think that not a whole lot of people with integrity, high moral values and empathy reach high positions in big pharma, hydrocarbons and finance. It's a dog eat dog world there.
Rest of the society just has to fight to force some rules on them and it's not easy when they have so much money to throw around to corrupt our democratic institutions. >


Rest of the society just has to fight to force some rules on them and it's not easy when they have so much money to throw around to corrupt our democratic institutions.

That's the big problem, isn't it? Our society is built such that the people who tend to accumulate lots of power and influence (and money, which is essentially the same thing as/interchangeable with power and influence) are the exact people who shouldn't ever have either. >

Yeah. I guess that's just how power dynamics work. Atleast it's a positive that we identify the problem and as a society are able to do something about it.
Most people are good and education is a powerful force to turn things better. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)


Energy giant BP has reported record annual profits as it scaled back plans to reduce the amount of oil and gas it produces by 2030.
Last year, the government introduced a windfall tax - called the Energy Profits Levy - on the "Extraordinary" profits being made at energy companies.
As well as announcing record profits, BP increased its payout to shareholders by 10%. BP's results follow similarly strong profits announced by rivals Shell, Exxon Mobil and Chevron last week.


Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: profits^#1 Energy^#2 oil^#3 gas^#4 tax^#5 >

Gotta save money for those all important stock buybacks to pump up those profits for the 1%! >

You mean 0.00000001%. You have a house without an outstanding loan? You're in the 1% ... >

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People the world over are trying to minimize their cost of living with inflation. Meanwhile I’ve seen nothing but record profits across the board for corporations. When are we going to do something about these bloated fat cats? >

In all of this, remember one thing. 
CAPITALISM IS NOT THE END.
Others will say capitalism is „flawed, but the only thing we have.” That is a LIE spread by those who want to preserve it. Economic systems change constantly and so will ours, so will society. So don’t stop advocating for reforms and a revolution, as unlikely as it might seem. >

I’d have more faith if we didn’t seem to be moving backwards. 
It’s beyond Capitalism at this point. These corporations have bought the world governments. Who institutes reform when the people making the laws are the ones making the profits? >

I'm most concerned about the perversion of science and technology for the ruling class. Ad agencies have been using psychology research to try their hardest to brainwash people (with varying success) for decades - between that and Big Data, how long before the super rich are able to calculate exactly how much they can steal from the populace to keep us juuuust not dissatisfied enough for armed revolution? If we're not there already. Meanwhile, climate change bears down on everyone, including the wealthy. >

„We never had so much money to invest into a cleaner future, so we don’t.“ >

Gas and oil needs more heavy regulation. No one will care for a free market if we all die in the next century >

We don’t need no livable planet.
We don’t need no climate targets.
Wo[r]kers leave those profits alone! >

Companies are just functions that maximize profits and minimize costs.
No one should ever expect them to behave responsibly unless influenced by an outside force. >

... and that's why we have have things like regulation, environmental/labor laws and govt. oversight.
Free market if left without rules will just kill itself. >

This should be the other way around: BP scales back profits to achieve climate targets, but it’s not. >

Also "inflation"... >

Why lose money today to save the world for tomorrow’s people? >

We're so fucked >

Shit out of luck >

Now I'm complete >

The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's in my nature." >

"The free market will self-regulate!"
Regulate itself to the highest profits it can manage. >

The perception that a free market is best when it's self-regulating  is completely flawed because the assumption is that money is the best factor driving the world.
It's driving development, yes, but it completely disregards other socio-economic factors that push humanity.
I'm somewhat libertarian but even I can see this is clearly not the best way we can do things. >


I'm somewhat libertarian

In what way? Like in an Anarchist way? Or in an Anarcho-Capitalist way? I'm going to assume the former because of your reasonable observations about the "free market" that no AnCap would ever admit.
Modern Libertarianism is a right wing bastardization of what it once was, and I think you might identify with one of the Socialist counterparts. Personally I'm into the idea of Anarcho-Communism, but at this point, I'll settle for anything to the left of Liberal. >

These bastards know none of this will affect them during their lifetimes so why bother. >

We’re sorry… >

It seems obvious no company would willingly give up profits, the goal is to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuels either by making renewables cheaper or fossil fuels more expensive. >

It’s a truly bittersweet moment when your cynicism is vindicated. >

Does anyone else worry about what they'll become when society eventually reaches a breaking point? I like to think of myself as a fairly moral person who has a lot of empathy for others but some of the things I catch myself imagining when I read about stuff like this scares me.
Like I don't just want to be part of the mob that pulls Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk from their homes, I want to light the fires and pull the lever on the guillotine (I don't know if guillotine's have levers). I want to trebuchet heads over compound walls to frighten the little billionaires. I want to do what the Italians did to Mussolini. The blood lust they manage to awaken in me is overwhelming sometimes. >

Even if BP was fined 1 million dollars a day for what they are doing to the environment. It would take nearly 80 years to erase this one year of profit. 
I get that the government isn't doing enough, but how do you even begin to punish them and get them to act responsibly in the face of that profits? The only real answer is jail time. Passing legislation with enough teeth they go to prison. Fines will never ever cut it. >

But it's not greed causing the high gas prices. >

I can't wait until oil companies are all bankrupt >

im scared that wont happen until we're extinct. >

idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore.jpg >

No olives on this planet >

Because of the climate change, see. >

Shout-out to all the pathetic henchmen who work for these cunts. Gotta do what ya gotta do >

If the global economy needs fossil fuels, lubricants, and other derived products then doesn't there need to be companies supplying that demand. >

Sure.  There is a need.  There is also corp. Greed and shareholder value that doesn't have any responsibility to the countries that make that profit happen.  The oil companies in the US get perks that almost no other industry gets.  High oil prices drive every aspect of the US economy.  Everything you eat, drink or need comes with a tax because of Oil Company Profits above all else.
Price inflation?  Look to oil and transportation first. >

Fuck these companies so much. Fuck them all right in the ass, as violently as humanly possible. >

Tax these fuckers already, who else is supposed to pay for the trillions in damages we're gonna be dealing with thanks to their decades of denial, misinformation, and blatant political obstruction around climate change? >

They paid $15 billion in taxes. They pay 75% tax on UK profits.  They are still spending $15b on clean energy next year. >

Hey guys, did you know that BP’s office buildings are just as flammable as their oil? >

Seriously nuclear apocalypse seems like the good option for the future of humanity >

Reading this while in the ICU watching my father in law being taken off life support from a cancer that was likely caused by his time cleaning up the deep water horizon spill after several people warned bp that the same cleanup procedures had lead to hundreds of people getting leukemia about 20 years after the exon spill >

BP execs declare selves fuel >

Fuck BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell etc. and all the professionals who work for them >

This shouldn’t be a problem as long as EV manufacturers can create vehicles that people would want to buy over gas. Why are people upset over this? >

Well, there's this reason, and this reason, and also this reason... >

So it sounds like battery and EV engineers should start working harder then. I don't want to downgrade technology, and I don't think anyone else does either. Give people a reason to buy a EV other than 'because it helps the environment'. >

Smart move! Only downside…the world might end. But hey $profit! >

“Ya know… we’re really rather just have the money…” >

WERE SORRY.  SORRY >

Nationalize these companies. >

A cancer on humanity. >

i hate to be fatalist, but my god, we are fucked. >

The crooks are making these 'record' profts by totally ripping off cosumers who are forced to use oil to get to work. Sadly Governments are doing nothing about it. Regulating petrol pump prices is the only way to deal with these criminals. >

The day when we don’t rely on companies like this can’t fucking come soon enough >

It would be cool if they would scale back the price of gas a little, the cunts. >

BP has a great PR team. Everyone forgot about the oil spill >

To be fair, they never had any intention of working toward climate targets.  Their only objective is to maximize profits.  Anything they say contrary to that is PR.  That’s true of every corporation. >

Hmmm. Behind Shell. That doesn’t seem right.  Wonder when the Americans will post their stellar profits. >

Oh thats a nice large sum to bribe governments with :) >

Wankers >

They had climate targets? >

Record profits sky high prices all while fucking up the environment with no consequences. >

Oh no who could’ve seen that coming >

Record profits were pretty inevitable after sanctioning Russian oil. >

How long until we just start killing people? At what point can it easily be argued to be self defense?
I feel like I could easily argue that willful selling out the future of our species is just as bad if not way worse than any genocide or atrocity committed thus far.
I'm not a violent person and I am not trying to advocate violence, but what other options are left? >

Corporate gangsters and extortionists >

Yeah thanks is for destroying the ocean and now all seafood has oil and surfactant in it. >

BP owns Amoco (British Petroleum owns American Oil Company)
Amoco was originally Rockeffler's Standard Oil founded 1889. 
Happening now,  there are BP stations that are switching to the Amoco brand.  Amoco stations are red white and blue and look super American. As an 80s kid, Amoco was huge....you'll feel nostalgic, but don't be fooled. It's still BP.