God forbid you watch the nat geo documentaries that proved the atmospheres of areas dont really travel and mix much.. or google images of "magnetic north movement map" because if you did that i'd have to start teaching you some really deep nasty government secrets... anywho... 7 times faster since 2001.. exposed by the US DoD and only a few weeks later Elon leaks his desire to colonize Mars within the same timeline of the moving poles.. as he also runs tunneling companies and developed rockets that can be converted to land in a missile silo.... buckle up theres more but you wont read it...
@@Boy_Boy honestly at this point the world is so fucked up that going after youtuber(s) would actually be a death sentence compared to (in their eyes) a normal ass lawyer or whistleblower who have people 'supporting' them but not in the same way fans of content creators would support those creators its actually fucked how much movement of people can be done from youtuber(s), thank fuck theres some out there actually putting that to use for good
A gentle reminder: - boy boy are not suicidal - no members of their family are suicidal - no members of their extended family are suicidal - none of their friends are suicidal - none of their friend's family are suicidal - they are very careful and very risk averse in everyday life (except for idat)
put down the crack pipe "- no members of their family are suicidal - no members of their extended family are suicidal - none of their friends are suicidal - none of their friend's family are suicidal" Alexa couldn't even be sure of those things, crazy you think you are.
Gentle question : how the fuck do you know all that? Answer: Either you're a dangerous stalker, or you made it up Obviously, I know what you're getting at, but I think it's just a tad insensitive to blurt out information you made up.
Dude yeah especially when you consider Steven was literally given more respect and kindness in prison from a man who basically acted like a gang leader
Geniuinely though, the italian mafia has some roots in strengthening local communities against outside control. Not like that means a lot nowadays but at least there's a claim to more charitable founding principles than some post-slavery oil conglomerate.
My favourite part about this are the legends in that first building. "Oh you're here to fuck with Chevron? They're not here anymore but you can see their old offices. Do you need directions to their new location?" Fucking incredible.
What other choices did those guards have? Do you know how annoying it would be to try to wrestle two very oily out of your building? They look very slippery! Better just tell them to go to any other building ;)
It's the classic Aussie helpfulness. 2 white guys in budgie smugglers and oil? They must have gotten lost and need directions. The Chaser did the same thing back in the day posing as an American tourist trying to get into Lucas Heights (our only nuclear reactor), the security guards gave him directions as how to get in. Mind you when Chas dressed as a caricature "muslim" the police were called in minutes.
A LOT of companies do this. Either in ToS or product/warranty information documents and wherever else they can put it. The trick is having so much money that you can enforce it.
they actually do, look up a recent case where Disney tried to argue a man couldnt sue them when his wife died in a park after having an allergic reaction to undeclared ingredients cause they agreed to never sue Disney in the terms of service on a Disney + subscription. it blew up in Disneys face btw
did u see the that disney did this to a guy who wife died at disneyland because the dish had nuts when they told them she was deathly allergic but because he signed up for a free trial for disney+ in 2021 he wasnt allowed to sue them
@@andrewogden1480 I’d add in how much corporations are scared of being held accountable for their actions. If chevron is forced to pay, it sets a precedent, and that is that last thing any corporation wants.
@@Byyourlogic-s3uthat’s true. They did mention in the video that if they win it will set a precedent and roadmap for holding foreign corporations accountable in the future.
It is also so funny that the people at the wrong building were more accepting of them and wanted to help them out vs the Chevron building calling police on them while asking them to leave. They didn't even bother to ask them to leave first before calling them which means they made a false police report smh
Bruh two dudes with nothing on them but some paper and a tiny swimsuit have got to be the least "security risk" ever, like wtf are they gunna do? Wrestle you to death?
It did look like they would set themselves on fire or some shit, people have done that in protest before. But I doubt that's their concern lol, if anything their concern is the media attention
My dude imagine your job is to make the residents of a building feel safe and comfortable and there are 2 shirtless clowns covered in oil asking to walk around your bosses. No shit you'd ask them to leave.
It hurts to see all this as a South American, for all of our history we've been raped, enslaved and had our resources exploited by foreign entities. The moment of hope that we had (in the 50's / 60's), with the rise of leaders that protected our resources and that wanted to create a decent national industry (Allende and Castro for example), ended with dictatorships powered by the US (or an embargo in the case of Cuba). The funny thing is that in the popular idea and history books, WE are the bad ones and the savages, meanwhile the Americans and Europeans are the providers, protectors and refined gentlemen that want good for everyone in the world. We really got the short end of the stick in this world.
I have some relatives from Bolivia and it's really weird seeing people with like 10% Spanish genetics being overtly racist and voting for the exploitation of the villagers. The city-dwellers love to go on about how good it was that the Spanish invaded and used slaves to build stuff. Hell, they even celebrate that stuff in their dance performances, representing the natives with "demonic" masks.
"The funny thing is that in the popular idea and history books, WE are the bad ones and the savages, meanwhile the Americans and Europeans are the providers, protectors and refined gentlemen that want good for everyone in the world." literally just lying now? I mean, it is underrepresented sure, but that statement is literally just a lie
The security gaurd working on the ground floor of the building surely can not be held responsible or be made to see the "irony" in the stunt. He just works there, have some sympathy.
As an Ecuadorian, thank you. People forget so quickly, a lot of people here already forgot, we are going trough a lot right now with a electricity crisis so I don't blame them. But thank you for reminding the rest of the world that we are still here
If an author was to write a dystopian evil company and wrote something like Chevron, everybody would be like: " Ok, buddy, this is a bit much, maybe don't make them that evil, nobody is that much of an asshole"
"The evil company was a bit over the top, but what really broke my immersion was the point where they somehow found a literal army of lawyers willing to fight for them. 2/5 stars."
“Come on, there’s no way a company could just create their own courtroom to decide whatever outcome they want. Completely ruined the immersion for me. 3/5 unrealistic book”
Someone should write a book where they only reference shady stuff that has happened in real life without revealing the references until the final chapter.
Views seem to have slowed down considerably after the first day, don’t understand why… been showing this to my friends left and right. Amazing work guys.
Love both of creators but can't force myself to watch this. Even though I am interested in what this secret disaster is. Start is TOO cringe. Feeling like I am watching one of the prank channels. That might be the reason why.
This might be the most fucked up thing I've seen all my life. Not only is it pure evil incarnate, it's on a scale unfathomable to most of us regular people, and committed by people who's powers are equally unfathomable to us. Despite not being in a financial status to make donations normally, I'm still going to make a donation because it feels wrong to not do something about this injustice. I hope most others feel the same.
Look up Monsanto lol. Poisoned the entire human race with forever chemicals that cause cancer and a plethora of other health problems. None of the CEO’s are in jail
@@Boy_Boy I can tell you that it's amazing that at the other side of the world this case is making noise. From my personal view, everybody in the urban landscape almost forgot this situation, the Amazonic region stays forgotten and economic and sociopolitical crisis has buried this trial to the Ecuadorian public eye... Conventional local media also likes to forget and ignore. We are struggling but we are fighting!
If anyone is feeling disheartened by this video, just remember how we got here There was a time when workers in America and Australia didn't get leave, lunch breaks, or toilet breaks. There was time where women and people of colour couldn't even vote. We have those rights now because our great grandparents fought long and hard for their rights, and the rights of others. They banded together and those same corporations that basically owned them buckled, broke, and yielded. When we work together we are so much more powerful than even the richest companies in the world. Don't ever forget that.
They already did, anybody advocating for the environment is called "bleeding heart commie spreading fake news" by a majority of the working class. They talk about conspiracies against them when they get all of their talking points from billionaires
I will get to it after I finish my 9 to 5...you know what? Nah...I'll drink a beer and continue life as usual. Complain but never make sacrifice needed to enact change. Tired of hearing about it. If you full on and quietly participate in capitalism, you choose this...over and over and over. Everyday you make rhe same choice.
I received my Master's degree in "Environmental Science & Management". In my law class, they brought in a lawyer from Gibson Dunn (who used to work for the EPA) and I asked him about Steven Donziger, in which he replied that he was a "crook". Realized immediately that my school did not give a shit about the environment. Just more neoliberl slop.
Sounds about right, a lot of these uni's/courses will have links to these big corps...as weirdly enough it's where people end up working, often folks have their studies funded partly by them too in some countries.
@@djstringsmusic2994 yep truly. Want to talk about degrowth economics? unacceptable. The Overton window at these institutions allows for market solutions only: carbon credits, volumetric benefit credits, fortress conservation, etc. It's so depressing. Shit that does not work. If you work for any major NGO in the environmental space it's all bullshit. The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, etc. I know people who work for all of them, and they all work as arms of imperialism under the guise of conservation. Obviously there are some good people who work at these places, and some good work that is done, but certainly not the norm at the management level.
@jazzabighits4473 Ah yes, fight violently against an entity with infinite money and influence, that will go great. It is silly to fight to the death, you still have a family and people that need you to help and protect them. Yes, you die a free man, and let your family die and the people that need you suffer, so it is rather pointless.
@@Moonchild15225 Not to mention just how many more people are willing to get behind you when you don't respond to injustice with force. The second you go full killdozer you've more than likely lost half of your support. Not to mention that the libertarian attitude represented by the killdozers of the world is, in reality, just the smallest scale version of skirting the law. If you think you should be exempt from the law as an everyday citizen, how can you expect people with infinite money and resources to be held accountable?
This is happening in Nigeria, too, but with Shell. The class action lawsuit has been delayed for years. They hire locals without official contracts so that they don't have to train and pay health insurance. So, more oil spills happen. People are so desperate that they would work for less wages than the next person, and if people were unhappy with the conditions, they could simply fire them and hire the next guy.
I was a homeless drug addict 4 years ago. My point is that I'm not exactly rich. I donated $21. I have a 3 year old nephew and I want a better world for him.
I am a CS student, currently not exactly rich either but expecting to make a decent living when i start working. You inspired me to match that $21. Who knows? Maybe otherwise the world would end before I graduate?
I literally two days ago saw a Chevron ad saying they were "the human energy company" and got curious so I looked to see whatever bad stuff they had done. I really couldn't find anything and all and what I did find was articles that looked like they were written by the executives accusing Steven of all these things. Keep making these videos.
I get a feeling that when companies make ads like that, they almost always have a horror connotation. People who commit crimes for a living are starving for being honest and confident.
man seeing that little girl pulling the oil covered stick out of what was probably their main drinking/swimming water broke my heart, you can see theres no hope in her eyes
@@Boy_Boy it’s fucked man idk how people have let themselves do these thing to other people like I’m no angel but fuck me that’s just the straight up definition of evil
You boys know that TH-cam “forgot” to notify me of this video, and it’s not in my notifications at all, I just happened to come across it in my feed 5 days after you posted it…
This is better charity than MrBeast Philanthropy. You guys are actually pointing the crosshair at the root of the problems instead of hiding it with temporary solutions.
You're on the point with this. This is what people should realize about corporate philanthropy. It's no charity, it's no activism. It's PR, it's tax breaks, it's branding for profit.
I remember hearing about Steven's imprisonment on Democracy Now back in 2021, and it was simply swept under the rug by the corporate press and forgotten. Thank you for not letting it be forgotten. There will be justice in the world, but only if we make it happen.
It's crazy that as as a 28 year old born, raised and still living in Colombia (I'm like, less than an hour by plane from Ecuador) I had NEVER heard of this story before this video. Literally never. Not in the news, not in college, not in a casual conversation with family or friends, not even in my (admittedly) rather short career in politics, literally never. This was eye opening.
That’s so awful, but it just shows the extent of the power and control these huge oil companies wield. It’s in your neighbors backyard and they’re too afraid of the HOA to tell anyone.
Odd its been a common topic for 60 years .. there is even several Hollywood movies with it as part of their topic. I remember it popping up in media here and there over the last 40 years
I teach high school social studies and honestly, I'm going to show this video to my classes. You did an excellent job of discussing the issue and the jokes are great. Cheers from Canada.
For some bizarre reason, one time my father decided pouring a cup of decade old gasoline into my mums garden would be a good idea. In the middle of our Raspberry grove. Of course we were f***ing furious, and he thought it would help. Well the Raspberries became inedible, killed the entire grove that has been growing for years and producing 100s of dollars of free berries. As it continued, nothing would grow there. Fast forward to this year, I built a garden box for mum to get away from that spot and laid sod in the old garden which now had a tree shadowing it. Was raking some leaves and in that exact spot the gas was poured, the sod was dead, in a perfect radius. This was just ONE CUP.
Maybe plant sunflowers, it can remove those toxic materials. Not gonna happen overnight but good to get started... or just try digging out, putting in some compost, maybe that's enough.
Yeah I would suggest digging out the contaminated soil. If it was just a cup, the affected area shouldn't be too big. You should be able to smell where the contamination extent reaches
I had a professor who filmed a documentary about Chevron in North Carolina, and his boss got fired from a university for getting a lawsuit pushed toward the university. My professor told me some interesting stuff…
@@gaemr_o5147 what I remember from it, they learned of a huge plot of land Chevron bought to build a very pollutive factory or something along those lines. He was DP, filming the factory from a very far distance and one of their representatives approached them and essentially threatened them… they were trespassing. Eventually his boss got let go to avoid the lawsuit I believe.
As an Ecuadorian myself is incredible to see how you guys did an amazing job presenting not only what Chevron cabron did to one of the most beautiful parts of our country, but also how the US government had, and still have, such a grip around many governments of Latin America. Although it is still such a tragedy, I am glad to see blokes like you sharing the pain of our people to audience that normally would never hear about this. Keep the amazing work!
The U.S. government basically nulls the democracy of South and Central American governments on a whim. It's disgusting. The only places in South America that get to go by relatively unscathed are French Guiana, which is a colonial territory of France, and Suriname, which was a Dutch colony, and now is a wealthy country due to U.S. investment in infrastructure around the time of WWII (French Guiana was beholden to Vichy France, a puppet government of the Nazi regime, and Suriname was used as a buffer with U.S. military funding).
It's very interesting to watch this as someone who lives in Ecuador, because a very common narrative here is that Steven Dozinger took all the money from the judgement himself, made himself rich and just never gave it to the Ecuadorians affected by Chevron. The few people who have heard about this case will usually say that Dozinger deserves to rot in prison and then hell for becoming a billionaire off of this. I mean, that clearly didn't happen, bur Chevron's PR team did an incredible job of convincing tons of Ecuadorians that is what happened and why the local tribes have never been paid. "Ask Dozinger for your money, not us!"
I love how chill the people in the wrong building were about this, but then as soon as a single Chevron employee encountered you they were like "absolutely not, we will not be fucked with, we have called the police"
I considered myself informed on these types of environmental issues, it's what I study and plan to make my career. However, after doing more research on oil extraction in the U.S., how it literally goes on right next to residential areas in the richest country in the world, I now know that I have a lot more to learn.
@@jamesanderson5658 i would say the facades make more sense to me than the flagrantly open wells beside houses but i had no idea any of this existed and it is entirely crazy
@@flingIetuin It's okay to hide them visually, it makes sense. It's not okay for NO ONE in the neighborhood to know that there's oil extraction right next to them.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 or, go to a state with lax gun laws, and then go to your nearest corporation headquarters. pose as a repairman, get to a floor thats much higher up than the lower ones (they are usually just filled with people who are just trying to make an honest living), and then, well, yknow
It didn't occur to me until seeing this that the reason they host so much ayahuasca tourism probably isn't money, I don't think indigenous tribes care about money. It's probably because desperately trying to heal the sickness in the white soul is the only thing they can do to stop us from murdering Aya, and ourselves with her.
Living in the global south you get used to your pain/struggles just being ignored with barely any coverage so thank you so much for speaking about this especially for the indigenous communities here in Ecuador that are still suffering today! And huge thank you to Steven his work means so much to us but also potentially to the whole world and every community that has been exploited! 🇪🇨
The indigenous communities all over South America's are the most neglected, I'm Brazilian and our part of the Amazon has so much going on, and the people who end up paying for it is the population, specially the indigenous.
Genuinely big props on the opening sketch. As someone who has worked in a goverment building (just IT guy), i've seen my fair share of protests and people doing stuff there like this. Some people tend to forget that most people working there are just normal employees and not big bad james bond villains who want to destroy the planet, so it's nice to see how respectful and calm you two did that.
Any creative ones like this? Id love to hear stories. I also work for the government but we never get creative protestors. Ours just yell that we need to post more signs.
Most people who worked for the nazis were normal people too. Be careful who you support, because you DO deserve some of the blame for the actions of powerful people that you help to enable. "We're just americans, we dont give a shit about ethics or responsibility, we just want a job to make money" is a bullshit excuse. I understand the sentiment, that it wont really get anything big done to mess with small fish. But I wouldnt absolve them of guilt just for being a small piece of a huge puzzle
@@nicksurfs1 During the time i worked there (which was during Covid) most of the protests were against anti-covid measures, those were all quite bland in creativity terms. The others were the typical climate ones (throwing paint at a wall, stuff like that). I guess the only notable one were the ones where they would form a line at the front gate and didn't let people inside the building (which only affected people not even working there since most employees used the back entrance which was closer to the subway station)
@@anotherfreakingaccount people need money to live, saying that a receptionist is enabling evil actions because they work in a building that happens to have an evil company is ridiculous. are the road workers also enabling them by fixing the roads that allow them to go to work every day? it is wasted energy
It's insane how a company is allowed to basically buy a trial like that. They can literally pay to put someone in jail because that person threatened their profits, and the government just allows it to happen
The guy above was a bit blunt, but close to the truth. Bourgeois democracy is the same thing as slave democracy; ie, the government is there to serve the class interests of the bourgeois class/slave owner class. The notion that government is some neutral arbitrator of class disputes is idealist fantasy for believers, or useful lies for cynics.
@@purgetrapscorp Let me correct this by stating that it is *prime capitalism"*. I mean, we have capitalism in Germany too, but this American way of living it, is some next level kinda shit
I wonder if any of them had at least a bit the feeling of being on the wrong side. If only 1 of them comes out with real info fron behind de scenes, that could change so much
@@yallprettysus All lawyers who have been on the bad side of a case will always have the thought to make it right, but since everything is so corrupt they cant say shit unless they want to be jailed or even killed
@@yallprettysus I’m a law student at a pretty prestigious university, I’ll say this, the kind of people who want to work in corporate law at large firms defending these companies do not have the same moral conscience as you and I. They went into law for money, not justice. The unfortunate truth.
Hi! Boyboy fan that lives in the Amazon region here! I'm from the north of Brazil (Pará) and I just have to say that I'm so thankful for this video and for the opportunity you're giving others to help Steven so he can continue helping the indigenous people of Ecuador and hopefully make an example. A lot of indigenous people here in the north of Brazil end up having to flee their land because of illegal deforestation and end up here in the metropolitan areas to live a life in poverty while their amazing culture, ancestry and sacred territory gets erased and destroyed by greedy corporations backed up and protected by the government. I hope someday they get their justice and have someone as dedicated to defending them as Steven.
You guys are making THE MOST WELL DOCUMENTED JOURNALISM I've seen in YEARS. I would like your help with the exposure of criminal forest fires in various biomes in Brazil sponsored by big companies, just like Chevron. Thank you for being on our side.
Incomprehensibly malicious on all accounts but what really blows my mind is that prosecutorial power can be given up to a private company. That's just another level of modern dystopia. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, it would be incredible to set a precedent to make these gargantuan companies take responsibility.
We all should create The Peoples' Court that's funded by gov and/or mandatory financial sponsorships from companies and refuse to use their dodgy dress up role playing court systems. Seems to be the way to even some of the oil playing field.
I want to thank you Boyboy for showing the destruction that American corporations have done to Latin America. As a child of Colombians who were persecuted for their progressive beliefs, I understand the direct involvement that the U.S. had in Latin American governments and corporations. You bringing this to a wider platform is so powerful and I appreciate you for it. I'm honored to be able to donate to a man who had the courage to stand up against one of the most powerful entity's in the world. He has my full support and I think there is a connection to be made with Chevron forcing environment disaster on the indigenous of the Amazon and the oil they provide to the Israeli apartheid state.
If the destruction of your home and exploitation of your fellow humans by private unaccountable corporate giants doesnt make you violently angry you need to reevaluate yourself.
@@james4066in a neoliberal capitalist society the two are not very different. Chevron is a private government that operates in other countries, it's law is the massive amount of capital it controls
Capitalism is historically the fusion of companies and government into one single entity that represents a singular class interest, the state. During the first decades of the emergence of capitalism government and companies could be lightly discerned as two different and in some cases semi-opposed interests, the aristocracy/nobility and the bourgeoisie. Today this is not the case. Government+Companies=Capitalist State
‘Making government bigger’ for what? What even is ‘making a government bigger’? Wouldn’t a government at the head of a state with the largest military in the world technically be the biggest government in the world? Yet supoosedly the US is one of the places with less ‘government power (interference)’? That’s the contradiction in liberal thought, because it cannot explain the fact that in today’s world, government and companies are one forming the capitalist state
Donation sent, first time for me and this is a worthy cause. I hate large corporations playing the strings of the system so obviously to make profit and destroy people.
Genuinely the best investigative journalism I’ve seen in some time comes from Boy Boy. Thank y’all for being such an integral part of my political education, and thank you for giving a shit about other people.
@@SKULLKR3W I mean, they are doing literal journalism. “You need to read more” okay douchebag, how about you give me some suggestions instead of a snarky little remark? Fuck off and suck my balls, anybody who reports on events happening in the world with the intent to inform is doing journalism; gargle my sweaty sack.
@@SKULLKR3Wyeah this is part of the innate homosocial desire to find good ol boys to idealize, and prop up things you like in spite of not knowing anything about them if a smol bean you like is doing it
The people you interview seem like they love talking to ya'll, and I don't imagine many jokes get cracked when they're talking about these tragedies elsewhere. I see that as a part of the work you do, just intentionally not being stuffy about the whole journalism part. Fantastic content as always, thank you for your work!
I think it helps that we're always interviewing people we admire. It's such a great job, being able to hang out with all these ridiculously cool people, I'm glad that translates into the footage we put out!
Nalleli Cobo's story has me wondering about my own mystery health issues. i got spontaneous, severe nosebleeds starting in preschool and never got answers as to why. I have a mast cell disorder, neurological issues, and several other things that are still undiagnosed, and nobody in the family has anything similar. finding a doctor that's familiar with what's going on is seeming impossible. granddad worked for an oil company so it's not out of the realm of possibility he was exposed to something, and pumping is going on all over the part of Texas i've been in my whole life so i've likely been exposed to the pollution too. we literally took a field trip to visit a bunch of oil pumps when i was in kindergarten. we played on a defunct pump the place had welded together. maybe a little rambly, but I appreciate you bringing attention to this issue, it's crazy how much of a blind eye is turned.
at least norway has nationalized their oil. in many countries, you will get get coups after coups like in Ecuador. if a dictator changes their opinions on being exploited they get disposed (Iraq 2003)
In my university, there was an initiative from professors and students to cut financial ties with oil companies. One of the counterarguments was that "without funding from [oil company] we wouldn't have been able to fund research that concluded complex ecosystems can grow on undersea abandoned oil rig structures"
I wonder how many people are gonna do exactly this now..... what are they gonna do? Put bars up along the building perimeter? They'll just slip through the bars!
Thank you for this. I’ve just recently been diving deeper into this catastrophe and how my country has been exploited. No one but you has really shown interest in Ecuador in this side of TH-cam.
A cluster of 19 oil wells in a single "drilling island" on Beverly's campus, owned by Venoco Co., can easily be seen by drivers heading west on Olympic Boulevard. As of 2006, the wells have been producing around 400 to 500 barrels of oil per day which earned the school a royalty of $ 300,000 per year
@@Boy_BoyThe Simpsons (a satire of American life), genres of music pioneered by black people (jazz, hip hop, rock, and folk/blues), Chinese restaurants (there were laws preventing Chinese immigrants from opening businesses that weren't restaurants or grocers), food pioneered by impoverished immigrants, indigenous peoples, and minorities (Sriracha, chop suey, Tex Mex, Creole cuisine, corn, etc.), plays/musicals (which came from the proletariat (but also racist) Vaudeville tradition, and also grew symbiotically with jazz), and technology (electricity, the Internet, GPS, robotics, the assembly line, telephone, television, film, lightbulbs, and medicine (Aspirin from Native American use of willow bark for pain relief, penicillin (invented in the city I was born in, Peoria, Illinois), etc.)) are the truly great innovations of the country. Most of what the country produces is capitalist bullshit, oppression, eugenics, and propaganda, unfortunately.
Steven is a real life hero. I appreciate all the informative links and how much research and care went into this video. And I'm so proud of this community for contributing to the fundraiser. Thank you for bringing more eyes to Chevron's crimes. I wish for a future where Steven can reconnect with his clients and continue his incredible work.
“Hey Boys! I’ve been following your channel for quite a long time and have always been impressed by the way you research and clarify controversial topics. I wanted to suggest a topic that I think is incredibly important but often overlooked: the largest mass killing of living beings on the planet - the practice of animal agriculture. In many parts of the world like the US, Europe, and major cities in Asia, it’s not necessary to consume animals for survival. We have the means and nutritional alternatives to live healthy lives without causing such widespread harm to animals. I’m not talking about regions where access to plant-based foods may be limited, but more about those societies where alternatives are readily available, yet animal slaughter continues at an alarming rate. It would be amazing if you could explore this topic in your thorough, balanced way. I think it could open a lot of eyes and lead to some much-needed conversations. Keep up the great work!”
As someone who used to live in the L.A area, its kinda crazy to hear that people didn't know those windowless buildings had oil rigs inside of them. I thought we all knew that 😭
Thank you guys for not only revealing these things but then giving us something to do to help. So often videos exposing things like this make me lose my will to go on but knowing that there is still hope no matter what makes an otherwise depressing video into something hopeful. Massive corporations want us to forget that there are more of us then there are of them. Ultimately they can't make money if we don't give it to them. It just comes down to how willing we are to sacrifice to make them hurt.
This is so important my sister just came back from an educational 6 week trip to Ecuador and she couldn't stop telling me about all the crazy bugs and traditions she took part in! Protect wildlife and the cultures of Ecuadorians. The Amazon itself pumps so much fresh air into our world and holds so much of the wildlife that it is essential that we protect it too
I moved to Australia as an expat coz my dad got a job with Chevron, he's always been in the oil industry. Now that I'm his annoying woke kid I realise I got this privilege from dirty oil money but didn't really have an idea of what this really meant. Well this video gave me a few answers and simultaneously fucked me up. Thank you boys, much needed.
Can always use more whistlers blowing the truth from the inside... that'sa hella good cause your privilege would be great to put towards...not to mention the doors and drawers you'd have more access to..
It’s not your fault mang, or your dad’s. What Chevron and companies alike do best is make it so people have no choice but to follow them and their awful decisions. You were able to move to Australia because your dad tried his damned hardest to do so, in desperate situations people take desperate measures (not trying to assume why exactly you guys moved here). These companies turn us into cogs and make it seem like we have no power, like all we can do is follow them, but it sure as hell isn’t true and that fact will be proven eventually
The work you're doing is important. Thank you for this video. I'm gonna cry I swear. You guys do some good shit. Keep doing shit like this please. Don't let them big guys fuck you up though. Let's fight for a liberated world.
Can we also mention how Cheveron and 3M together are responsible for the incorporation of microplastics into the world's water supply? I am absolutely 100% CONVINCED that My mother and Grandmother developed breast cancer and my Grandmother, later developed bone cancer due to the microplastics in Australia's water system thanks to Cheveron and the Australian Government is ignoring the issue. We used to live right near Perth Airport. My Partner grew up around Jandakot airport. His mother had brain cancer and passed away. I can list so many others that I know that have had cancers that have been known to be related to the microplastics - Ovarian, Brain, Breast, Blood, Bone, Kidney and Testicular - most of them in people who have either lived or live in a close proximity to the airports. The fact that no one has realised this or brought this up and the Aus Government continue to ignore it astounds me.
Even if it’s full of joke’s it’s a genuine humanistic thing people need to fight for, this channel has put tears in my eyes so much and’s I heavily appreciate you for doing this
Bro this shit is so absurd that it had me laughing throughout most of the vid, I cannot understand how you can make videos about topics like this be so funny. I hope there comes a day where the big fuckin corps cower in fear at the mere whisper of "Boy Boy", keep up the good work and I hope the day comes real fuckin soon.
I'm Brazilian, I was radicalised and now I'm just full doom, nothing will change, greedy rich people will destroy everything and the poor will deal with the consequences.
@@bluester7177 doomerism is a mindset deliberately crafted and imposed by the elite in order to cause civilians to become depressed and complacent because they know that if we fight them, they will lose
Just so you know, Chevrons stock market value has also more than doubled since 2022. One of the many oil companys that also profited from the war on Ukraine, by increasing their prices to an insane amount due to them monopolizing the oil trade. Leaving millions struggling to get their houses warm.
It is so cool that you guys spread awareness about this issue. I used to collect mushrooms a lot and got far more cautious during the last years on where I collect tbem. I live in northern Germany and we have a lot of old "Sickergruben", like holes in the ground where the oil companies just dumped the toxic waste. On some of those places they then grew trees so now there is a forest again. Sometimes there is not even a warning sign or anything even though the ground is highly toxic due to lead and other heavy metals as well as highly toxic organic compounds. But this is just one issue. The ground is also poisoned with lead arsenic which was put onto every potatoe field in Germany, France and many other countries to kill the potatoe beetle. The former potatoe fields were also sometimes reforested and still have high concentrations of lead and arsenic. Then theres poisoned ground due to the first and second world war especially in forests that were used for production or testing of weapons. But also places where the Allies dumped all the chemical weapons they found in the Nazis military compounds. There is a famous lake near Munster where around 30.000 bombs with weaponized chemicals were dumped. And finally but definetly not last the poisoned soil due to lead-gasoline which actually lead to an IQ deficit in the people who grew up during its period of usage. Places where petrol stations used to be and the area surrounding streets are highly poisoned with lead because of that. Well thats why I dont eat that many wild mushrooms anymore.
Such a depressing story. We had this in NZ with pyke river, corporations move their assests out of the country and then file for bankruptcy, means they never have to pay to clean up. I've been to Pyke River, it's one of the most beautiful forests Ive ever seen. Pristine. And there were security gates, new CCTV cameras. It felt like a foreign corporation was ready to arrest us if we trespassed on NATIONAL PARK LAND.
Please do a video on Shell in houston, they have been fucking with all the hispanic residents' health all my life. Fires that spew toxic carcinogens into the air have knowingly gone under reported due to their huge influence in texas. Growing up the air always smelled awful and the companies never informed anyone of the chemicals they are releasing in the area. There have been so many incidents that shell has caused. At least 5 in the last 2 years. Please look up the fire we had 2 years ago. I personally had to do research on what exactly caught fire because news outlets weren't allowed to post everything.
I’m blown away that it has taken 50 years to hear about this. Thank you for speaking about it and involving the person who took the brunt of the PRIVATE COMPANIES PROSECUTION. As an American, it’s incredibly sad.
Donate what you can to help Steven continue the fight chuffed.org/campaign/free-donziger/bb
We can make Chevron pay.
Can you wear shorter swimsuit next time
God forbid you watch the nat geo documentaries that proved the atmospheres of areas dont really travel and mix much.. or google images of "magnetic north movement map" because if you did that i'd have to start teaching you some really deep nasty government secrets... anywho... 7 times faster since 2001.. exposed by the US DoD and only a few weeks later Elon leaks his desire to colonize Mars within the same timeline of the moving poles.. as he also runs tunneling companies and developed rockets that can be converted to land in a missile silo.... buckle up theres more but you wont read it...
@@dawae6754 so a thong?
12k$ in 1 hours, let see how far it gets
Edit: couple mins later already 18k$
ayo boyboy im gonna do a nono to ya if u dont upload more often i swear to god i will do a thing❤
I still cant get the oil out of my hair!
Same for the Ecuadorians i guess
Fairy liquid or shampoo
Have you tried regular dish soap? There's a reason it was used during the BP oil spill on the wildlife.
Lemme dip some bread in it
Let me dip some bread in it
Just so everyone is aware, neither of these two are suicidal so if Chevron wants to pull a Boeing we'll know
Thanks for the clarification. This comment has saved our lives
@@Boy_Boy honestly at this point the world is so fucked up that going after youtuber(s) would actually be a death sentence compared to (in their eyes) a normal ass lawyer or whistleblower who have people 'supporting' them but not in the same way fans of content creators would support those creators
its actually fucked how much movement of people can be done from youtuber(s), thank fuck theres some out there actually putting that to use for good
@@tikkngyeah we all know how much the deep state fears the TH-cam army!!
Dang it, we got boeing as a verb before gta 6
@@firdaus99031 Technically not a verb the way Alex up there used it xD But yeah
"It's a security risk"
"Oh, is it dangerous in there?"
Amazing 10/10
Mde me crack up, fuck
Genuinely felt like I was watching classic Chaser
Reasonable question imo
@@Cyan1deSandwich yeah dude, working for the Chaser org would've been so good to hone improv skills in those situations
that was genius!
A gentle reminder:
- boy boy are not suicidal
- no members of their family are suicidal
- no members of their extended family are suicidal
- none of their friends are suicidal
- none of their friend's family are suicidal
- they are very careful and very risk averse in everyday life (except for idat)
Yeah that last one’s a bit misleading (especially consider the katana ceiling fan)
put down the crack pipe
"- no members of their family are suicidal
- no members of their extended family are suicidal
- none of their friends are suicidal
- none of their friend's family are suicidal" Alexa couldn't even be sure of those things, crazy you think you are.
@@MadladMgeee fed
Gentle question : how the fuck do you know all that?
Answer: Either you're a dangerous stalker, or you made it up
Obviously, I know what you're getting at, but I think it's just a tad insensitive to blurt out information you made up.
@@fahrenheit2101 fed
Chevron makes the mafia look like a charity organization
Dude yeah especially when you consider Steven was literally given more respect and kindness in prison from a man who basically acted like a gang leader
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Al Capone did more for local communities than this company
Geniuinely though, the italian mafia has some roots in strengthening local communities against outside control. Not like that means a lot nowadays but at least there's a claim to more charitable founding principles than some post-slavery oil conglomerate.
@@arenomusicIt’s a shame he decided to evade some taxes
My favourite part about this are the legends in that first building.
"Oh you're here to fuck with Chevron? They're not here anymore but you can see their old offices. Do you need directions to their new location?"
Fucking incredible.
We were shocked that they helped us find Chevron
probably was a fan of them
What other choices did those guards have? Do you know how annoying it would be to try to wrestle two very oily out of your building? They look very slippery! Better just tell them to go to any other building ;)
@@Boy_Boy Maybe their departure wasn't the best. I mean, they are evil.
It's the classic Aussie helpfulness. 2 white guys in budgie smugglers and oil? They must have gotten lost and need directions. The Chaser did the same thing back in the day posing as an American tourist trying to get into Lucas Heights (our only nuclear reactor), the security guards gave him directions as how to get in. Mind you when Chas dressed as a caricature "muslim" the police were called in minutes.
"It's illegal to sue us." Fantastic law. I don't see why more companies do this.
A LOT of companies do this. Either in ToS or product/warranty information documents and wherever else they can put it. The trick is having so much money that you can enforce it.
they actually do, look up a recent case where Disney tried to argue a man couldnt sue them when his wife died in a park after having an allergic reaction to undeclared ingredients cause they agreed to never sue Disney in the terms of service on a Disney + subscription. it blew up in Disneys face btw
did u see the that disney did this to a guy who wife died at disneyland because the dish had nuts when they told them she was deathly allergic but because he signed up for a free trial for disney+ in 2021 he wasnt allowed to sue them
Cause not everybody has that much money
All pharma companies in the US have this built into a bunch of their drugs.
I love how Chevron spent more money trying to cover their asses than what they would've spent on properly disposing of toxic waste.
that probably just means they have even worse things they are trying to hide.
That makes this tragedy so much more tragic!
I think it’s a testament to how devastating the pollution is that they spent that much money to suppress and control the outcome
@@andrewogden1480 I’d add in how much corporations are scared of being held accountable for their actions. If chevron is forced to pay, it sets a precedent, and that is that last thing any corporation wants.
@@Byyourlogic-s3uthat’s true. They did mention in the video that if they win it will set a precedent and roadmap for holding foreign corporations accountable in the future.
Oiling up already and we are only 30 seconds in? Guess it’s our lucky day!
Christmas came early!
Its not just christmas that came ☺️
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🤣🤣🤣. Look how the turns tabled
Didn’t even have to ask
"Wrong building" would have had me rolling if I saw that irl
The fact they then turn up to Ampol instead, who Chevron literally sued for using their trademark, is just 👌
I love that the security guard helped them 😂
Someone during the stream said they saw the boys at their office running naked.
I'm so glad my gross incompetence didn't ruin the video, we still managed to make it work hahaha
It is also so funny that the people at the wrong building were more accepting of them and wanted to help them out vs the Chevron building calling police on them while asking them to leave. They didn't even bother to ask them to leave first before calling them which means they made a false police report smh
Bruh two dudes with nothing on them but some paper and a tiny swimsuit have got to be the least "security risk" ever, like wtf are they gunna do? Wrestle you to death?
To be fair, they might have been pretty flammable 😂
cant even wrestle cus theyre that oily
It did look like they would set themselves on fire or some shit, people have done that in protest before. But I doubt that's their concern lol, if anything their concern is the media attention
its illegal to be that hot
My dude imagine your job is to make the residents of a building feel safe and comfortable and there are 2 shirtless clowns covered in oil asking to walk around your bosses. No shit you'd ask them to leave.
It hurts to see all this as a South American, for all of our history we've been raped, enslaved and had our resources exploited by foreign entities. The moment of hope that we had (in the 50's / 60's), with the rise of leaders that protected our resources and that wanted to create a decent national industry (Allende and Castro for example), ended with dictatorships powered by the US (or an embargo in the case of Cuba). The funny thing is that in the popular idea and history books, WE are the bad ones and the savages, meanwhile the Americans and Europeans are the providers, protectors and refined gentlemen that want good for everyone in the world. We really got the short end of the stick in this world.
this video has me sobbing as a Brazilian with family from Para. I hope one day our people can be freed from this.
I have some relatives from Bolivia and it's really weird seeing people with like 10% Spanish genetics being overtly racist and voting for the exploitation of the villagers. The city-dwellers love to go on about how good it was that the Spanish invaded and used slaves to build stuff. Hell, they even celebrate that stuff in their dance performances, representing the natives with "demonic" masks.
"The funny thing is that in the popular idea and history books, WE are the bad ones and the savages, meanwhile the Americans and Europeans are the providers, protectors and refined gentlemen that want good for everyone in the world." literally just lying now? I mean, it is underrepresented sure, but that statement is literally just a lie
To fair Castro was not exactly a saint either.
@@AHuman-rc6dsif castro wasn't a saint chevron was the devil
'Even if we're this oily?' fair point
I mean, getting the restraining order was a streak of genius. If they get the job, it'll be 100% remote work
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We tried our best to impress them and they didn't even give us the time of day!
@@AnonNoplebSo what you’re saying is i should go to my job tomorrow oiled up from head to toe?
@@Dahk It doesn't work if you're already employed. The order of steps is critical in this strategy
The oil company telling YOU that you're a security risk is hilarious. Worst part is, the guy didn't probably even notice the irony
He never said "You're a security risk" - He said that it is a security risk.
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@@bt70a9 Right?! They wouldn't even acknowledge their humanity. What a shame..
These companies can't acknowledge humanity because they activrly destroy it.
The security gaurd working on the ground floor of the building surely can not be held responsible or be made to see the "irony" in the stunt. He just works there, have some sympathy.
The security guard that told them the right buildign is a hero
I wonder if he personally knew the security guard in that correct building was gonna block them and wanted to mess with him lol
Chasers fan. :P
Not all heroes wear capes
@@Boy_BoyBut some heroes are oily 🫶
I love him honestly
As an Ecuadorian, thank you. People forget so quickly, a lot of people here already forgot, we are going trough a lot right now with a electricity crisis so I don't blame them. But thank you for reminding the rest of the world that we are still here
How the absolute fuck is it legal for a company to prosecute a person.
It is not but who cares as long as they have money and power
It just proves how meaningless the ("just us") court system represents while being paraded about like it's protecting peoples' rights.
Its crazy what large amounts of money will get you.
Laws are made for them not us
This is how it's always been, just not normally this direct
Aleksa and Alex have truly nailed that the best means of protest is just fucking with the people you're against
Taking up the torch that The Chaser left behind all too well
I can think of something better but if I speak I will be in trouble
Thsts just all protest.
@@kurtpleavinI watch for the nostalgia. 😅
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If an author was to write a dystopian evil company and wrote something like Chevron, everybody would be like: " Ok, buddy, this is a bit much, maybe don't make them that evil, nobody is that much of an asshole"
Right?
It's baffling how blatantly evil they are... Way too on-the-nose for sci-fi
"The evil company was a bit over the top, but what really broke my immersion was the point where they somehow found a literal army of lawyers willing to fight for them. 2/5 stars."
Captain Planet was a documentary lol
“Come on, there’s no way a company could just create their own courtroom to decide whatever outcome they want. Completely ruined the immersion for me. 3/5 unrealistic book”
Someone should write a book where they only reference shady stuff that has happened in real life without revealing the references until the final chapter.
Views seem to have slowed down considerably after the first day, don’t understand why… been showing this to my friends left and right. Amazing work guys.
Commenting to help boost
Got recommended to me by YT, never heard of them
Love both of creators but can't force myself to watch this. Even though I am interested in what this secret disaster is. Start is TOO cringe. Feeling like I am watching one of the prank channels. That might be the reason why.
@@MrMpakobecthe beginning is less than 3 minutes, that’s just pathetic you can’t make it through lol
@@MrMpakobecpa thetic lol it’s less than 3 mins long
This might be the most fucked up thing I've seen all my life. Not only is it pure evil incarnate, it's on a scale unfathomable to most of us regular people, and committed by people who's powers are equally unfathomable to us. Despite not being in a financial status to make donations normally, I'm still going to make a donation because it feels wrong to not do something about this injustice. I hope most others feel the same.
unfathomable through and through
look up DuPont, you'll start to understand what the "hippies" were on about
Look up Monsanto lol. Poisoned the entire human race with forever chemicals that cause cancer and a plethora of other health problems.
None of the CEO’s are in jail
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Keep calm and tip your local Oil corporation
We are still hurting here in Ecuador. Thanks Aleksa and Alex for showing this to the world. Greetings from Quito
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I hope you're holding up okay over there! Ecuador will collect their money!
@@Boy_Boy I can tell you that it's amazing that at the other side of the world this case is making noise. From my personal view, everybody in the urban landscape almost forgot this situation, the Amazonic region stays forgotten and economic and sociopolitical crisis has buried this trial to the Ecuadorian public eye... Conventional local media also likes to forget and ignore. We are struggling but we are fighting!
If anyone is feeling disheartened by this video, just remember how we got here
There was a time when workers in America and Australia didn't get leave, lunch breaks, or toilet breaks. There was time where women and people of colour couldn't even vote.
We have those rights now because our great grandparents fought long and hard for their rights, and the rights of others. They banded together and those same corporations that basically owned them buckled, broke, and yielded.
When we work together we are so much more powerful than even the richest companies in the world. Don't ever forget that.
yeah the rich and powerful can't stop millions of us with gillotines
They already did, anybody advocating for the environment is called "bleeding heart commie spreading fake news" by a majority of the working class. They talk about conspiracies against them when they get all of their talking points from billionaires
Well said sir!
I will get to it after I finish my 9 to 5...you know what? Nah...I'll drink a beer and continue life as usual. Complain but never make sacrifice needed to enact change. Tired of hearing about it. If you full on and quietly participate in capitalism, you choose this...over and over and over. Everyday you make rhe same choice.
It hurts when I put my finger in my eye.
Well....don't put your finger in your eye. But...but.. poke. Why does this keep happening.
The carrot story is such a clear indictment of US prisons. They have lost complete sight of half of the point of prisons: rehabilitation.
I received my Master's degree in "Environmental Science & Management". In my law class, they brought in a lawyer from Gibson Dunn (who used to work for the EPA) and I asked him about Steven Donziger, in which he replied that he was a "crook". Realized immediately that my school did not give a shit about the environment. Just more neoliberl slop.
That is insane 😢
They're just raising the next generation of corrupt fuck lawyers that will defend corporations from any and all responsibility for their evil
I hope Gibson Dunn paid this guy lots of money... It'd be such a waste to sell your soul for a normal wage.
Sounds about right, a lot of these uni's/courses will have links to these big corps...as weirdly enough it's where people end up working, often folks have their studies funded partly by them too in some countries.
@@djstringsmusic2994 yep truly. Want to talk about degrowth economics? unacceptable. The Overton window at these institutions allows for market solutions only: carbon credits, volumetric benefit credits, fortress conservation, etc. It's so depressing. Shit that does not work. If you work for any major NGO in the environmental space it's all bullshit. The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, etc. I know people who work for all of them, and they all work as arms of imperialism under the guise of conservation. Obviously there are some good people who work at these places, and some good work that is done, but certainly not the norm at the management level.
"we can't let you back there. It's a security risk"
"It's dangerous in there?"
Don't forget to donate at least 2 euros
I was baffled... I assumed they loved oily men
Private prosecution is literally just kidnapping. Chevron ought to be criminally charged for kidnapping.
It's so insane
I'm surprised the dude didn't exercise his right to defend himself, violently. Don't let ANY country or person take you hostage.
@jazzabighits4473 Ah yes, fight violently against an entity with infinite money and influence, that will go great. It is silly to fight to the death, you still have a family and people that need you to help and protect them. Yes, you die a free man, and let your family die and the people that need you suffer, so it is rather pointless.
@@Moonchild15225 Not to mention just how many more people are willing to get behind you when you don't respond to injustice with force. The second you go full killdozer you've more than likely lost half of your support. Not to mention that the libertarian attitude represented by the killdozers of the world is, in reality, just the smallest scale version of skirting the law. If you think you should be exempt from the law as an everyday citizen, how can you expect people with infinite money and resources to be held accountable?
@@Moonchild15225 There are ways to attack without revealing yourself.
You guys are the doing what nobody else dares to. Keep on poking the bear, but please stay safe!
This is happening in Nigeria, too, but with Shell. The class action lawsuit has been delayed for years. They hire locals without official contracts so that they don't have to train and pay health insurance. So, more oil spills happen. People are so desperate that they would work for less wages than the next person, and if people were unhappy with the conditions, they could simply fire them and hire the next guy.
That's so messed up. It's just the way that industry operates. Hopefully if the Ecuadorians win, they can bring that model to the rest of the world
@@Boy_Boy please do a video for shell too - they also bought themselve some crazy right & laws - just to not get fucked when they destroy the land
*LIST OF CEOS OF SHELL*
Jeroen van der Veer (2004 - 2009)
Peter Voser (2009 - 2013)
Ben van Beurden (2014 - 2022)
Wael Sawan (2023-present)
@@thecianinatorOften, CEOs are hired to be outward faces that take the hit if something bad happens while the board faces zero repercussions.
And also in rdc with total énergie
I was a homeless drug addict 4 years ago. My point is that I'm not exactly rich. I donated $21. I have a 3 year old nephew and I want a better world for him.
Thanks so much mate, I hope you're holding up alright over there!
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I am a CS student, currently not exactly rich either but expecting to make a decent living when i start working. You inspired me to match that $21. Who knows? Maybe otherwise the world would end before I graduate?
I'm also a student.
Thank you guys for inspiring me to match the 21$
You’re doing good man, I’m glad you’re doing better.
I literally two days ago saw a Chevron ad saying they were "the human energy company" and got curious so I looked to see whatever bad stuff they had done. I really couldn't find anything and all and what I did find was articles that looked like they were written by the executives accusing Steven of all these things.
Keep making these videos.
human energy? do they want to bring slavery back or is oil out of plants and animals not good enough anymore?
“Human energy” Human labour
That sounds so sinister. They're out here gooping up humans and using it as biofuel
I get a feeling that when companies make ads like that, they almost always have a horror connotation. People who commit crimes for a living are starving for being honest and confident.
@@zoutewandSoylent Gas
Great video, donated. Spreading word for stuff like this is an actual efficient step forward.
i am so surprised how most of people act like this is normal to see two almost naked guys covered in oil
Well, it is Australia at the end of the day
Don’t look a gift horse in the well-toned oiled moth
They were wearing budgie smugglers
Probably just got out of the company pool downstairs
It's not normal, it just happens a lot.
I mean, what would you do..?
man seeing that little girl pulling the oil covered stick out of what was probably their main drinking/swimming water broke my heart, you can see theres no hope in her eyes
It's unbelievable what this company got away with
@@Boy_Boy it’s fucked man idk how people have let themselves do these thing to other people like I’m no angel but fuck me that’s just the straight up definition of evil
Why wouldn't they hire such oily gentlemen? Their slipperiness fits perfectly into their business scheme
I'm as baffled as you are
You boys know that TH-cam “forgot” to notify me of this video, and it’s not in my notifications at all, I just happened to come across it in my feed 5 days after you posted it…
I had to search them to see if they made another video since I hadn't seen anything in a while. I have watched all their videos and am subscribed.
This is better charity than MrBeast Philanthropy. You guys are actually pointing the crosshair at the root of the problems instead of hiding it with temporary solutions.
Mr Beast would pay a million dollars to relocate a single resident rather than pay a million dollars to stop it from ever happening again
You're on the point with this. This is what people should realize about corporate philanthropy. It's no charity, it's no activism. It's PR, it's tax breaks, it's branding
for profit.
full send on this
No shit bro😭
MrBeast would be the guy paying someone a million to lie in court. He's only in it for money just like Chevron.
I remember hearing about Steven's imprisonment on Democracy Now back in 2021, and it was simply swept under the rug by the corporate press and forgotten. Thank you for not letting it be forgotten. There will be justice in the world, but only if we make it happen.
Steven is a hero and we're all doing our part to bring it to light
It's crazy that as as a 28 year old born, raised and still living in Colombia (I'm like, less than an hour by plane from Ecuador) I had NEVER heard of this story before this video. Literally never. Not in the news, not in college, not in a casual conversation with family or friends, not even in my (admittedly) rather short career in politics, literally never. This was eye opening.
That’s so awful, but it just shows the extent of the power and control these huge oil companies wield. It’s in your neighbors backyard and they’re too afraid of the HOA to tell anyone.
Odd its been a common topic for 60 years .. there is even several Hollywood movies with it as part of their topic.
I remember it popping up in media here and there over the last 40 years
genuinely one of the most depressing and angering things i've seen in a while. fantastic job, boys!
I teach high school social studies and honestly, I'm going to show this video to my classes. You did an excellent job of discussing the issue and the jokes are great. Cheers from Canada.
This is beautiful!
I always wanted to be a highschool teacher, so you'd be making my dream come true.
Maybe just not the part in the beginning where theyre in only undies and covered in oil idk if parents would be happy abt that one
@Boy_Boy Maybe make an educational cut of the video so teachers can feel free to share this important journalism without unnecessary backlash?
There was a lot worse in Supersize Me and that didn't stop them from shoving it down our throats like oily, oily burgers @@hbanana222
Congrats, you made your whole class gay, just like these boys.
from laughing to incredible rage in 31 minutes... no one does it like Boy Boy. just donated-- no company should be above the law
Thanks for helping out!
For some bizarre reason, one time my father decided pouring a cup of decade old gasoline into my mums garden would be a good idea. In the middle of our Raspberry grove. Of course we were f***ing furious, and he thought it would help. Well the Raspberries became inedible, killed the entire grove that has been growing for years and producing 100s of dollars of free berries. As it continued, nothing would grow there. Fast forward to this year, I built a garden box for mum to get away from that spot and laid sod in the old garden which now had a tree shadowing it. Was raking some leaves and in that exact spot the gas was poured, the sod was dead, in a perfect radius. This was just ONE CUP.
Maybe plant sunflowers, it can remove those toxic materials. Not gonna happen overnight but good to get started... or just try digging out, putting in some compost, maybe that's enough.
Yeah I would suggest digging out the contaminated soil. If it was just a cup, the affected area shouldn't be too big. You should be able to smell where the contamination extent reaches
There are fungi that can do bioremediation, you should try some of those!
I feel like a doofus, but I legitimately had no idea how toxic that stuff was until I started researching this video. It is an insane chemical
"he thought it would help"
I don't need details, but... ignorance, or enmity?
Chevron makes Chernobyl accident look like a win for ecosystems.
I had a professor who filmed a documentary about Chevron in North Carolina, and his boss got fired from a university for getting a lawsuit pushed toward the university. My professor told me some interesting stuff…
pls share
They're so much more powerful than most people realize... it's a truly terrifying company.
@@gaemr_o5147 what I remember from
it, they learned of a huge plot of land Chevron bought to build a very pollutive factory or something along those lines. He was DP, filming the factory from a very far distance and one of their representatives approached them and essentially threatened them… they were trespassing. Eventually his boss got let go to avoid the lawsuit I believe.
As an Ecuadorian myself is incredible to see how you guys did an amazing job presenting not only what Chevron cabron did to one of the most beautiful parts of our country, but also how the US government had, and still have, such a grip around many governments of Latin America. Although it is still such a tragedy, I am glad to see blokes like you sharing the pain of our people to audience that normally would never hear about this. Keep the amazing work!
Yeah, it’s crazy how people still don’t realise this enough
The U.S. government basically nulls the democracy of South and Central American governments on a whim. It's disgusting. The only places in South America that get to go by relatively unscathed are French Guiana, which is a colonial territory of France, and Suriname, which was a Dutch colony, and now is a wealthy country due to U.S. investment in infrastructure around the time of WWII (French Guiana was beholden to Vichy France, a puppet government of the Nazi regime, and Suriname was used as a buffer with U.S. military funding).
just donated no man should go to jail for calling a corrupt corporation out on their bullshit
Absolutely insane that this happens, hopefully we can stop it from happening again
It's very interesting to watch this as someone who lives in Ecuador, because a very common narrative here is that Steven Dozinger took all the money from the judgement himself, made himself rich and just never gave it to the Ecuadorians affected by Chevron. The few people who have heard about this case will usually say that Dozinger deserves to rot in prison and then hell for becoming a billionaire off of this.
I mean, that clearly didn't happen, bur Chevron's PR team did an incredible job of convincing tons of Ecuadorians that is what happened and why the local tribes have never been paid. "Ask Dozinger for your money, not us!"
You guys need to post that yall are not suicidal in anyway just in case
This did not save the boeing ingenieur. Multiple gunshot wounds in the back, hanging from the ceiling? Must be suicide.
@@Lorian667 checks out
You guys will still look great in ankle bracelets and oily speedos
I had the same thought. I really hope they don't suddenly "lose their will to live" in the next few weeks.
@@Lorian667 ingenieur?
I love how chill the people in the wrong building were about this, but then as soon as a single Chevron employee encountered you they were like "absolutely not, we will not be fucked with, we have called the police"
I was so shocked by how helpful the first office building was... I assumed we'd be tackled immediately
@@Boy_Boy clearly they made the right choice - they'd be getting no grip on those bods
I considered myself informed on these types of environmental issues, it's what I study and plan to make my career. However, after doing more research on oil extraction in the U.S., how it literally goes on right next to residential areas in the richest country in the world, I now know that I have a lot more to learn.
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I knew about the visible ones, but facade buildings is so insane.
@@jamesanderson5658 i would say the facades make more sense to me than the flagrantly open wells beside houses but i had no idea any of this existed and it is entirely crazy
@@flingIetuin It's okay to hide them visually, it makes sense. It's not okay for NO ONE in the neighborhood to know that there's oil extraction right next to them.
@@CDexie that is entirely true
OMG I WORK IN THAT BUILDING!!! The security who told you where they went is a legend
Man this fucking depressing. What the actual fuck. This is just one company imagine how many more companies are like this. Feel really helpless
We aren't helpless. We can change the world by working together.
There are people in your community doing important work, find them.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 or, go to a state with lax gun laws, and then go to your nearest corporation headquarters. pose as a repairman, get to a floor thats much higher up than the lower ones (they are usually just filled with people who are just trying to make an honest living), and then, well, yknow
@@itcouldbelupus2842A.L.A.D.D.I.N. By Black Rock is going to rule the world… it’s only just begun.
What they said. Corruption is everywhere but the more you focus on the solutions the more you realize there's a lot of hope for us
Monsanto too…
Imagine how much money could flood into this cause if you told the ayauascha tourists that they would get contaminated plants if it wasn't fixed.
Damn, you're right! I should've made a completely different video
It didn't occur to me until seeing this that the reason they host so much ayahuasca tourism probably isn't money, I don't think indigenous tribes care about money. It's probably because desperately trying to heal the sickness in the white soul is the only thing they can do to stop us from murdering Aya, and ourselves with her.
Those tourists were one of the worst things in the video I reckon. Seeing their limp bodies was insane. Wtf is wrong with people.
@@lawdpleasehelpmeno you saw people getting high and thought that was worse than all the other things in this video? That's crazy
@@lawdpleasehelpmenoTHAT’S the worst thing in this video to you?! Wow..
Living in the global south you get used to your pain/struggles just being ignored with barely any coverage so thank you so much for speaking about this especially for the indigenous communities here in Ecuador that are still suffering today! And huge thank you to Steven his work means so much to us but also potentially to the whole world and every community that has been exploited! 🇪🇨
The indigenous communities all over South America's are the most neglected, I'm Brazilian and our part of the Amazon has so much going on, and the people who end up paying for it is the population, specially the indigenous.
Greed really makes people do the vilest things. Thanks for spreading awareness.
Genuinely big props on the opening sketch. As someone who has worked in a goverment building (just IT guy), i've seen my fair share of protests and people doing stuff there like this. Some people tend to forget that most people working there are just normal employees and not big bad james bond villains who want to destroy the planet, so it's nice to see how respectful and calm you two did that.
@TheAsobi thanks mate. I was hoping security would want to do some Turkish oil wrestling though
Any creative ones like this? Id love to hear stories. I also work for the government but we never get creative protestors. Ours just yell that we need to post more signs.
Most people who worked for the nazis were normal people too. Be careful who you support, because you DO deserve some of the blame for the actions of powerful people that you help to enable. "We're just americans, we dont give a shit about ethics or responsibility, we just want a job to make money" is a bullshit excuse.
I understand the sentiment, that it wont really get anything big done to mess with small fish. But I wouldnt absolve them of guilt just for being a small piece of a huge puzzle
@@nicksurfs1 During the time i worked there (which was during Covid) most of the protests were against anti-covid measures, those were all quite bland in creativity terms. The others were the typical climate ones (throwing paint at a wall, stuff like that). I guess the only notable one were the ones where they would form a line at the front gate and didn't let people inside the building (which only affected people not even working there since most employees used the back entrance which was closer to the subway station)
@@anotherfreakingaccount people need money to live, saying that a receptionist is enabling evil actions because they work in a building that happens to have an evil company is ridiculous. are the road workers also enabling them by fixing the roads that allow them to go to work every day? it is wasted energy
It's insane how a company is allowed to basically buy a trial like that. They can literally pay to put someone in jail because that person threatened their profits, and the government just allows it to happen
It's Neo Feudalism, where corporations are our feudal lords
@@itcouldbelupus2842It's simply called capitalism. Don't popularize pseudo-terms that only muddy the waters for the average person.
Problem is to do anything to shevron, will cause gas prices to go up, meaning voters will be mad meaning nothing will be done
The guy above was a bit blunt, but close to the truth. Bourgeois democracy is the same thing as slave democracy; ie, the government is there to serve the class interests of the bourgeois class/slave owner class. The notion that government is some neutral arbitrator of class disputes is idealist fantasy for believers, or useful lies for cynics.
@@purgetrapscorp Let me correct this by stating that it is *prime capitalism"*. I mean, we have capitalism in Germany too, but this American way of living it, is some next level kinda shit
"I don't know how to describe it, I'm like a half citizen." That's a great way of describing it. Don't let CORPORATIONS control our RIGHTS folks!
Keep up with the good work.
Every single lawyer who worked for Chevron and Chevron executive should have to live on the shore of these spills with their families.
I wonder if any of them had at least a bit the feeling of being on the wrong side. If only 1 of them comes out with real info fron behind de scenes, that could change so much
@@yallprettysus All lawyers who have been on the bad side of a case will always have the thought to make it right, but since everything is so corrupt they cant say shit unless they want to be jailed or even killed
@@yallprettysus I’m a law student at a pretty prestigious university, I’ll say this, the kind of people who want to work in corporate law at large firms defending these companies do not have the same moral conscience as you and I. They went into law for money, not justice. The unfortunate truth.
Hi! Boyboy fan that lives in the Amazon region here! I'm from the north of Brazil (Pará) and I just have to say that I'm so thankful for this video and for the opportunity you're giving others to help Steven so he can continue helping the indigenous people of Ecuador and hopefully make an example. A lot of indigenous people here in the north of Brazil end up having to flee their land because of illegal deforestation and end up here in the metropolitan areas to live a life in poverty while their amazing culture, ancestry and sacred territory gets erased and destroyed by greedy corporations backed up and protected by the government. I hope someday they get their justice and have someone as dedicated to defending them as Steven.
It's my first time donating, using yt as a weapon like this is amazing
thanks so much for your help! We're all doing our best to make Chevron pay
You guys are making THE MOST WELL DOCUMENTED JOURNALISM I've seen in YEARS. I would like your help with the exposure of criminal forest fires in various biomes in Brazil sponsored by big companies, just like Chevron.
Thank you for being on our side.
Incomprehensibly malicious on all accounts but what really blows my mind is that prosecutorial power can be given up to a private company. That's just another level of modern dystopia.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention, it would be incredible to set a precedent to make these gargantuan companies take responsibility.
We all should create The Peoples' Court that's funded by gov and/or mandatory financial sponsorships from companies and refuse to use their dodgy dress up role playing court systems. Seems to be the way to even some of the oil playing field.
I want to thank you Boyboy for showing the destruction that American corporations have done to Latin America. As a child of Colombians who were persecuted for their progressive beliefs, I understand the direct involvement that the U.S. had in Latin American governments and corporations. You bringing this to a wider platform is so powerful and I appreciate you for it. I'm honored to be able to donate to a man who had the courage to stand up against one of the most powerful entity's in the world. He has my full support and I think there is a connection to be made with Chevron forcing environment disaster on the indigenous of the Amazon and the oil they provide to the Israeli apartheid state.
If the destruction of your home and exploitation of your fellow humans by private unaccountable corporate giants doesnt make you violently angry you need to reevaluate yourself.
Buh buh my pappy said it was the gooberment that did all the big bads!
@@james4066in a neoliberal capitalist society the two are not very different. Chevron is a private government that operates in other countries, it's law is the massive amount of capital it controls
All made possible by the huge government that you want to make bigger.
Capitalism is historically the fusion of companies and government into one single entity that represents a singular class interest, the state. During the first decades of the emergence of capitalism government and companies could be lightly discerned as two different and in some cases semi-opposed interests, the aristocracy/nobility and the bourgeoisie. Today this is not the case. Government+Companies=Capitalist State
‘Making government bigger’ for what? What even is ‘making a government bigger’? Wouldn’t a government at the head of a state with the largest military in the world technically be the biggest government in the world? Yet supoosedly the US is one of the places with less ‘government power (interference)’? That’s the contradiction in liberal thought, because it cannot explain the fact that in today’s world, government and companies are one forming the capitalist state
Donation sent, first time for me and this is a worthy cause. I hate large corporations playing the strings of the system so obviously to make profit and destroy people.
Genuinely the best investigative journalism I’ve seen in some time comes from Boy Boy.
Thank y’all for being such an integral part of my political education, and thank you for giving a shit about other people.
You need to read more love these dudes but they aren’t journalists
@@SKULLKR3W I mean, they are doing literal journalism.
“You need to read more” okay douchebag, how about you give me some suggestions instead of a snarky little remark?
Fuck off and suck my balls, anybody who reports on events happening in the world with the intent to inform is doing journalism; gargle my sweaty sack.
@@SKULLKR3Wwdym in what ways aren't they journalists?
@@SKULLKR3Wyeah this is part of the innate homosocial desire to find good ol boys to idealize, and prop up things you like in spite of not knowing anything about them if a smol bean you like is doing it
@@SKULLKR3Wyea, this. Lol.
The people you interview seem like they love talking to ya'll, and I don't imagine many jokes get cracked when they're talking about these tragedies elsewhere. I see that as a part of the work you do, just intentionally not being stuffy about the whole journalism part.
Fantastic content as always, thank you for your work!
I think it helps that we're always interviewing people we admire. It's such a great job, being able to hang out with all these ridiculously cool people, I'm glad that translates into the footage we put out!
Donated seven bucks. People like Steven are the only reason why I still believe that there is still hope left.
Nalleli Cobo's story has me wondering about my own mystery health issues. i got spontaneous, severe nosebleeds starting in preschool and never got answers as to why. I have a mast cell disorder, neurological issues, and several other things that are still undiagnosed, and nobody in the family has anything similar. finding a doctor that's familiar with what's going on is seeming impossible. granddad worked for an oil company so it's not out of the realm of possibility he was exposed to something, and pumping is going on all over the part of Texas i've been in my whole life so i've likely been exposed to the pollution too. we literally took a field trip to visit a bunch of oil pumps when i was in kindergarten. we played on a defunct pump the place had welded together. maybe a little rambly, but I appreciate you bringing attention to this issue, it's crazy how much of a blind eye is turned.
The oil industry in Norway also have “independent “ research companies checking out everything they do. I love how much you can do with money
at least norway has nationalized their oil. in many countries, you will get get coups after coups like in Ecuador. if a dictator changes their opinions on being exploited they get disposed (Iraq 2003)
A Norwegian company dumped thousands of tons of aluminum production wastes on the guama River here on Brazil.
In my university, there was an initiative from professors and students to cut financial ties with oil companies. One of the counterarguments was that "without funding from [oil company] we wouldn't have been able to fund research that concluded complex ecosystems can grow on undersea abandoned oil rig structures"
@@thaDjMauz That's grasping at straws if I've ever seen it x)
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Step one: oil up step 2: enter a chevron facility step 3: get a job
step 4: realise its the wrong building
I wonder how many people are gonna do exactly this now..... what are they gonna do? Put bars up along the building perimeter? They'll just slip through the bars!
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It sounded reasonable to me...
Thank you for this. I’ve just recently been diving deeper into this catastrophe and how my country has been exploited. No one but you has really shown interest in Ecuador in this side of TH-cam.
Cheers mate!
Unfortunately, it's the same playbook all over South America and around the world
lots of love from me & my dog phoebe
lol thought this was a me and my dog by pheobe bridgers reference at first!
I thought the oil well in a school was a Simpsons joke
Simpsons has experts that do throughout research to make those eps. So many of the things they say comes out as truth. It is not a coincidence
A cluster of 19 oil wells in a single "drilling island" on Beverly's campus, owned by Venoco Co., can easily be seen by drivers heading west on Olympic Boulevard. As of 2006, the wells have been producing around 400 to 500 barrels of oil per day which earned the school a royalty of $ 300,000 per year
The Simpsons is the greatest thing to come out of the US
@@Boy_Boy There is also pinball machines.
@@Boy_BoyThe Simpsons (a satire of American life), genres of music pioneered by black people (jazz, hip hop, rock, and folk/blues), Chinese restaurants (there were laws preventing Chinese immigrants from opening businesses that weren't restaurants or grocers), food pioneered by impoverished immigrants, indigenous peoples, and minorities (Sriracha, chop suey, Tex Mex, Creole cuisine, corn, etc.), plays/musicals (which came from the proletariat (but also racist) Vaudeville tradition, and also grew symbiotically with jazz), and technology (electricity, the Internet, GPS, robotics, the assembly line, telephone, television, film, lightbulbs, and medicine (Aspirin from Native American use of willow bark for pain relief, penicillin (invented in the city I was born in, Peoria, Illinois), etc.)) are the truly great innovations of the country. Most of what the country produces is capitalist bullshit, oppression, eugenics, and propaganda, unfortunately.
Remember, Oil company executives have an address, and working lungs and hearts at the moment. -Jreg
What video is this from???? I need to know.
Wake the f*ck up samurai
Steven is a real life hero. I appreciate all the informative links and how much research and care went into this video. And I'm so proud of this community for contributing to the fundraiser. Thank you for bringing more eyes to Chevron's crimes. I wish for a future where Steven can reconnect with his clients and continue his incredible work.
“Hey Boys! I’ve been following your channel for quite a long time and have always been impressed by the way you research and clarify controversial topics. I wanted to suggest a topic that I think is incredibly important but often overlooked: the largest mass killing of living beings on the planet - the practice of animal agriculture.
In many parts of the world like the US, Europe, and major cities in Asia, it’s not necessary to consume animals for survival. We have the means and nutritional alternatives to live healthy lives without causing such widespread harm to animals. I’m not talking about regions where access to plant-based foods may be limited, but more about those societies where alternatives are readily available, yet animal slaughter continues at an alarming rate.
It would be amazing if you could explore this topic in your thorough, balanced way. I think it could open a lot of eyes and lead to some much-needed conversations. Keep up the great work!”
As someone who used to live in the L.A area, its kinda crazy to hear that people didn't know those windowless buildings had oil rigs inside of them. I thought we all knew that 😭
Thank you guys for not only revealing these things but then giving us something to do to help. So often videos exposing things like this make me lose my will to go on but knowing that there is still hope no matter what makes an otherwise depressing video into something hopeful. Massive corporations want us to forget that there are more of us then there are of them. Ultimately they can't make money if we don't give it to them. It just comes down to how willing we are to sacrifice to make them hurt.
yes yes yes!!!!
So true
This is so important my sister just came back from an educational 6 week trip to Ecuador and she couldn't stop telling me about all the crazy bugs and traditions she took part in! Protect wildlife and the cultures of Ecuadorians. The Amazon itself pumps so much fresh air into our world and holds so much of the wildlife that it is essential that we protect it too
Amazing work bringing this to light.
Sent from an Oil Well in Wyoming USA
I moved to Australia as an expat coz my dad got a job with Chevron, he's always been in the oil industry. Now that I'm his annoying woke kid I realise I got this privilege from dirty oil money but didn't really have an idea of what this really meant. Well this video gave me a few answers and simultaneously fucked me up.
Thank you boys, much needed.
Can always use more whistlers blowing the truth from the inside... that'sa hella good cause your privilege would be great to put towards...not to mention the doors and drawers you'd have more access to..
It’s not your fault mang, or your dad’s. What Chevron and companies alike do best is make it so people have no choice but to follow them and their awful decisions. You were able to move to Australia because your dad tried his damned hardest to do so, in desperate situations people take desperate measures (not trying to assume why exactly you guys moved here). These companies turn us into cogs and make it seem like we have no power, like all we can do is follow them, but it sure as hell isn’t true and that fact will be proven eventually
An immigrant*
@@BobMarley-up4wvsame dang thing
@@El_Negro2003 Nah, white people don't get to call themselves expats while everyone else is a immigrant
This video left me with the conclusion that every prisoner in the US is a better person than anyone working for Chevron.
yup
Gotta say Steven's a bloody legend, big respect to him and all his input!
The work you're doing is important. Thank you for this video. I'm gonna cry I swear. You guys do some good shit. Keep doing shit like this please. Don't let them big guys fuck you up though. Let's fight for a liberated world.
This channel is doing the REAL good work. Thank you for exposing these corporations. I cant believe the things they do right under our noses
Can we also mention how Cheveron and 3M together are responsible for the incorporation of microplastics into the world's water supply? I am absolutely 100% CONVINCED that My mother and Grandmother developed breast cancer and my Grandmother, later developed bone cancer due to the microplastics in Australia's water system thanks to Cheveron and the Australian Government is ignoring the issue. We used to live right near Perth Airport. My Partner grew up around Jandakot airport. His mother had brain cancer and passed away. I can list so many others that I know that have had cancers that have been known to be related to the microplastics - Ovarian, Brain, Breast, Blood, Bone, Kidney and Testicular - most of them in people who have either lived or live in a close proximity to the airports. The fact that no one has realised this or brought this up and the Aus Government continue to ignore it astounds me.
Even if it’s full of joke’s it’s a genuine humanistic thing people need to fight for, this channel has put tears in my eyes so much and’s I heavily appreciate you for doing this
Bro this shit is so absurd that it had me laughing throughout most of the vid, I cannot understand how you can make videos about topics like this be so funny. I hope there comes a day where the big fuckin corps cower in fear at the mere whisper of "Boy Boy", keep up the good work and I hope the day comes real fuckin soon.
Don't let this make you fall into doomerism. Let this radicalize you.
I'm Brazilian, I was radicalised and now I'm just full doom, nothing will change, greedy rich people will destroy everything and the poor will deal with the consequences.
@@bluester7177 As long as the government doesnt have the right regulations in place
@@bluester7177 doomerism is a mindset deliberately crafted and imposed by the elite in order to cause civilians to become depressed and complacent because they know that if we fight them, they will lose
Just so you know, Chevrons stock market value has also more than doubled since 2022. One of the many oil companys that also profited from the war on Ukraine, by increasing their prices to an insane amount due to them monopolizing the oil trade. Leaving millions struggling to get their houses warm.
Cool Beans
everything for the profit of the capitalists. From war money, to keeping the working poor cold by making something more expensive
Please continue giving people like him a platform. That would be a relly nice direction for the channel!
I Agree 100%, it is really great to have the opportunity to Learn about things like this
It is so cool that you guys spread awareness about this issue.
I used to collect mushrooms a lot and got far more cautious during the last years on where I collect tbem. I live in northern Germany and we have a lot of old "Sickergruben", like holes in the ground where the oil companies just dumped the toxic waste. On some of those places they then grew trees so now there is a forest again. Sometimes there is not even a warning sign or anything even though the ground is highly toxic due to lead and other heavy metals as well as highly toxic organic compounds.
But this is just one issue. The ground is also poisoned with lead arsenic which was put onto every potatoe field in Germany, France and many other countries to kill the potatoe beetle. The former potatoe fields were also sometimes reforested and still have high concentrations of lead and arsenic.
Then theres poisoned ground due to the first and second world war especially in forests that were used for production or testing of weapons. But also places where the Allies dumped all the chemical weapons they found in the Nazis military compounds. There is a famous lake near Munster where around 30.000 bombs with weaponized chemicals were dumped.
And finally but definetly not last the poisoned soil due to lead-gasoline which actually lead to an IQ deficit in the people who grew up during its period of usage. Places where petrol stations used to be and the area surrounding streets are highly poisoned with lead because of that.
Well thats why I dont eat that many wild mushrooms anymore.
Such a depressing story. We had this in NZ with pyke river, corporations move their assests out of the country and then file for bankruptcy, means they never have to pay to clean up. I've been to Pyke River, it's one of the most beautiful forests Ive ever seen. Pristine. And there were security gates, new CCTV cameras. It felt like a foreign corporation was ready to arrest us if we trespassed on NATIONAL PARK LAND.
Please do a video on Shell in houston, they have been fucking with all the hispanic residents' health all my life. Fires that spew toxic carcinogens into the air have knowingly gone under reported due to their huge influence in texas. Growing up the air always smelled awful and the companies never informed anyone of the chemicals they are releasing in the area. There have been so many incidents that shell has caused. At least 5 in the last 2 years. Please look up the fire we had 2 years ago. I personally had to do research on what exactly caught fire because news outlets weren't allowed to post everything.
I’m blown away that it has taken 50 years to hear about this. Thank you for speaking about it and involving the person who took the brunt of the PRIVATE COMPANIES PROSECUTION. As an American, it’s incredibly sad.