Corrupt oil companies

[trenton]

This thread will be a discussion of different ways to fight pollution and climate change by holding multi billion dollar corporations accountable for environmental destruction.  These companies are getting away with what I consider crimes against humanity because of all the people whose lives are ruined by pollution and environmental destruction.  If you have any ideas for stopping them, then share it here.

One of my ideas has to do with the fact that chevron owes over 50 billion dollars across 70 lawsuits in 31 different countries.  In order to avoid accountability, they imprisoned prosecutor Steven Donziger and they refuse to pay the lawsuit he won for the people of Ecuador.  Congress woman Rashida Tlaib of the 13th district of Michigan confronted Chevron on its refusal to pay these lawsuits, but the company continues to lie about the existence of these lawsuits.

One idea that crossed my mind was to file a lawsuit designed to compel the company to pay for the lawsuits they owe.  This would likely need the support of powerful public officials if it were to have a chance of success.  Otherwise, the one suing them would likely be imprisoned on the grounds of false defamation charges.  This In conjunction with the corrupt judges who fail to refuse themselves when they hold stock in a corporation is a symptom of a deeper problem.

The entire American government is a corporate monopoly and the legal system is broken so long as lobbyists write the laws and manipulate the courts.  The American government needs to be radically transformed by breaking up this corporate monopoly on the legal system in order to hold the rich accountable for their crimes.  By bringing oil companies like chevron to justice it will help to break up this Neo liberal corporatist monopoly.  This is necessary if we wish to bring about equality, fairness, and justice while protecting the planet from the greatest threat we face.

How should we stop the corrupt oil companies?

How should we transform the government?

[BlueOak]

In their current state, energy companies decide everything about energy companies. So either we can reform energy companies further to the point they reflect a desire not to set fire to the ground they are on, or equalize power back to people. The first is easier but the second can be chipped away at.

1) Legalize Hemp for bio fuels.

2) Universal engine design standards in vehicles which are constantly updated to be as efficient and environmentally friendly as possible.

3) Further financial Incentives for renewable power generation.

4) Competition monopoly laws. Stop them intimidating, buying out and redesigning existing vehicles or machines, against people who create more effiecient versions or upgrades to what they have. 

5) More Research Grants for Renewables.

6) Highlighting and developing out the link between immigration and environmental change, food production, overcrowding, poverty etc.

7) Unions and Protests. An environmental union would be helpful, billed as economic protection on the above issues, as well as furture protection for our children and grandchildren.

8) Highlighting just how long we have left before the different stages of no return on the environment. We've past some for example. They define what the future weather, ecosystem and quality of life here will be. So we could have models, this is what the world will look like, then this is what the world will look like.

9) Talk. Lots of talk on this, reasoning and not judging people. Constant education.

10) Encouraging cultural identification to renewable energy, a solar community, a wind farm family etc.

I mean you can tackle things like money out of politics and corruption too, as these are indirect benefits. 

Edited January 24, 2022 by BlueOak

[BlueOak]

Oh and back to what we've always needed to do forever.

Organize.

Keep creating structures on this topic further, that is scientists, to speakers, to industries, to politicians. The flow of information. If you can be involved in any of those four or organizing them, breaking down the information between each stage, great.