The Power of Big Oil Part Two: Doubt (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- Watch part two of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-episode FRONTLINE docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change.
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Part two, “Doubt,” chronicles how, as scientific evidence of human-caused climate change mounted in the 2000s, the industry continued to question the science, and went to new lengths to shape American politics and stall climate policy.
Part one, “Denial,” is now streaming: bit.ly/3xTxYhg
Part three, “Delay,” premieres May 3 on PBS and online: to.pbs.org/3rByEEe
“The Power of Big Oil” is a FRONTLINE Production with Mongoose Pictures in association with BBC and Arte. The series producer is Dan Edge. The producer and director of episode 2 is Gesbeen Mohammad. The editorial consultant is Russell Gold. The senior producers are James Jacoby and Eamonn Matthews. The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue - 00:00
Bush Backs Out of Carbon - 01:52
What ExxonMobil Knew Internally and Said Externally - 12:18
Evidence of Anthropogenic Climate Change Grows - 19:24
A Bipartisan Push to Address Climate Change - 25:54
“The Koch Political Machine” - 38:47
The 2010 Midterms & Carbon Pledge - 46:02
Credits - 52:59
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May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.. Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔
True that. I love PBS. I’m a news junkie and prefer documentaries over any other kind of programming. Rarely do I watch television, especially now, with the internet. What part of Alaska do you live in? Fairbanks?
This is also why the republican party has long sought to silence PBS and NPR.
It truly is a bunch of nonsense. The climate has not changed, Hottest temp. on record was in the 1930's. Explain that. I'd rather get free electricity and free gasoline. $6/gal is bullshit. $0.30/kWh is double bullshit. Total rip-off.
@@melaniecotterell8263 Why don’t you explain your comment by providing a link of your info? I’d like to see if it’s reliable.
Came back to see if Melanie Cotterell had replied to my question…lol. Nope, the liar troll deleted her comment, then slithered back under her rock. Never take a Republican at their word. They just want to spread Misinformation and Disinformation. They take their cues from Dear Leader Psychopath Trump.
It’s never short of amazing to sit back and watch the little people be manipulated to rally behind what’s clearly in the economic interest of the people truly in charge.
Sickening is the word I use, as I agree completely, though I doubt that many of them were truly "manipulated" without knowing they were wrong; one would have to be incredibly stupid or willingly blind not to see it.
@@TheCommunicationCoach There is a lot at stake on this thing on both sides. On one side are the super wealthy globalists who want to shut off energy and cause depopulation. On the other side are people who want to continue to live. I think we know whose side Frontline is on. There are manipulated little people on both sides.
@@jakebredthauer5100 IDK that the genocide by rich people is actually a "side," but I agree with you about Frontline, they're on the side of truth and honest information. When they had Steve Bannon on one ep laughing about how they screwed over Hillary thanks to Russian hackers, it sickened me to even see his evil face, but seeing that evil and hearing it spew it's guilt with laughter might have helped someone else to see IT for what IT really is: pure selfish evil who likes being evil.
@@TheCommunicationCoach You may have misunderstood what I wrote. I was implying that Frontline was on the side of depopulation and that the people want to continue to receive energy to be able to continue to live.
Regarding Bannon, I may check into that episode. I knew that Hillary was evil but it is theoretically possible that Bannon is also evil.
@@jakebredthauer5100 No, I was just hoping you were supporting Frontline. Or, why are you here? They are clearly on the "side" of saving the earth and all of its peoples, so I don't know where you're coming from. Hillary evil? You think she's in a pizza parlor basement drinking baby's blood? That's what Bannon said, along with Jones and the rest, so he's not "also" but just pure evil.
Greed has needs. Uncertainty and doubt are their greatest weapons. The concepts of the "known unknowns" and the politics of uncertainty are destroying the only earth we have. Reminds me of the post-apocalyptic cartoon by Tom Toro, captioned "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment we created a lot of value for shareholders."
I fear Climate Change "science" is just a means by which a different group of share holders rake in the billions
Thank you all at Frontline for your work on this. The most important issue of a lifetime, of a species.
In the end it makes no difference, as the issue isn’t fossil fuels but human consumption in general and the global economy dependent on consumer spending. Cleaner energy isn’t clean for example and your just offloading the environmental costs to 5 years old being forced to mine cobalt in the Congo and having China bare the costs of refining lithium and polluting itself in the process. Consumption is the issue, no matter how Silicon Valley tries to greenwash the tech industry, it is not the solution. The environmental costs and responsibilities are merely shifted to others unseen.
@@zeitgeistx5239 doing nothing isn't the solution either
Of our species. And all of our fellow earthlings. 🌍🌍☠️☠️🌹
@@zeitgeistx5239 ok doomer
And there is a sucker born every minute. Maybe two.
Thank you FRONTLINE for posting this. I grew up watching these documentaries with my father & truly they have helped me learn so much over the years.
I am blessed to live in a country with a free press. Thank you pbs
A "free press" died when they got rid of the Fairness Doctrine and evils like Faux Spews gets to lie blatantly but call it "the truth."
Got to fight to keep it that way.
Fact checkers should censor this nonsense before some fool starts buying their story. These changes will make us poorer, that is the only certainty,. Cheap energy is strength, Imagine the economy if people didn't have to pay for energy. They would have a lot more power as consumers, they could save more. Things would cost less. High energy costs cause the opposite.
"free press"??! Yeah we sure saw that when the US Mainstream Media censored thousands of contrary scientists during covid and censored the Lab Leak Theory for over a year and has spun nothing but lies and propaganda during the Ukraine War....there is no professional neutral fact based media in the USA anymore
what good is it to have a free press if it is swamped with misinformation?
"You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
If you, as an American company, don't believe in your position strongly enough to state and defend it in an interview with Frontline, I immediately suspect your motives.
I'm sometimes so surprised how naive some Americans as yourself are,
In beliefs that the motives of American Corporations is anything but accountability to their share holder.
This is one of our core principals which allows citizens like yourself to enjoy a comfortable retirement.
Wake up!
A true capitalist has no remorse for leaving behind destruction, environment or most chilling, other people
Frontline *_ALWAYS_* comes through with the best documentaries on the world around us!
@生活有滋有味 reduce human gas emission.
Yay!!! Frontline for President!!!!
The abuse of power comes as no surprise to us mere citizens. Thank you Frontline and PBS
It's coming to the end? They THINK there GOD . HOW SAD .
We must comply with our corporate overlords.
Abuse of power is over-regulating industries, Under-regulating is non-use of authority
@@melaniecotterell8263 The government isn't the only party that can abuse power, as this documentary clearly shows. Also, do you really think that climate and environmental issues would be solved by de-regulating industries?
Frontline concerns itself with abuse of power only when it involves certain people with certain political beliefs...other groups Frontline spins propaganda to protect and shield those abuses of power
Honestly, props for Jerry Taylor - as a human being - for being able to admit that he was wrong, for being able to realize when his opinion may not have been true and to really think about the issue himself.
blah blah blah, so long after the crimes does not make me feel sorry for any of them at all, NO ONE can be that stupid, he knew enough but didn't have the backbone to stand up to his masters, like all GOP do
He gave up fighting for sanity for some other reasons. He folded.
@生活有滋有味 Methane is the biggest threat as it's rapidly coming out of the quickly-melting permafrost.
It's Never too late to do the Right things. Do something on Climate Change is better than doing nothing.
@@user-wd7hs2ys8n Yes, but that's just a pound of cure vs. the ounce of prevention we could've had but for the greedy corps and countries. We're always playing catch up, but this time, there IS NO MORE TIME. Did you see Miami's floods? Those will be the norm and Miami will be gone.
This has to be one of the most important conversations we need to address right now especially for the future. Thank you frontline💯
Sadly watching this documentary has taught me that we DID start to do something, in the eighties, and then big business managed to get us to stick our heads in the sand long enough so that now it’s too late. The time to act was back then, we somehow managed to go backwards and not forwards in our knowledge. Where was this doc a decade ago when people were still denying climate change and arguing the science is still out? Apparently we’d gone through all this before, and didn’t know it. We’re definitely doomed.
"We won't solve the climate crisis until we solve the misinformation crisis" ... sadly, that's true of just about everything we're facing.
Disinformation, not misinformation.
@@xchopp true, I was quoting the guy in the video trailer
@@xchopp True. Much more accurate to say disinformation. This is intentional.
I thought that as soon as I heard it.
The GOP is/are the problem(s).
@@xchopp
We need to stop BOTH.
It's not going to take 50 years for young people to ask what you were thinking. We are asking it now.
Like most politicians on both sides they will tell the people what they think they want to hear then nothing when they get elected
There needs to accountability not only financially but criminally as well
Those who caused us to spend more $ for the same thing should have to give us a refund.
hahahahahahahaha - you realize you have a president that attempted a coup in broad daylight and nothing happens - and you think something will be done to these people - you realize neither Bush nor Cheney can ever leave the country - because they would be arrested anywhere else in the world - right ?
Nah.
Gel
This is one heck of a series they have put together
Propaganda. Wait until it starts cooling off. That will really scare people. Americans have been migrating south for the warmer climate for years, These regulations are nothing but virtue signaling, they do absolutely nothing to change or stop change. Zilch.
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right before bed ahhhh. pbs worth one more hour :D
Where are you ? .
Imagine how many DIRTY SECRETS that Frontline wasn’t able to uncover
what makes you think that an Establishment funded program like Frontline would tell you those dirty secrets on this subject and all the other subjects?
Frontline is doing some powerful journalism and I’m here for it
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Top notch reporting on a story that needs to be told. Minor critique: keep the interviewee’s names on longer and put the names on screen again when they return in other segments. If I look away for a second I miss them and then I’m wondering who this person is for the rest of the program.
Agree entirely, I had the same experience.
I'm right there with you! I hate having to rewind and still not find it!
Watch in again, it’s on TH-cam
they also need to increase the volume level for those watching on phones. Everything maxed out on my phone I could barely hear it.
When Exxon/Mobil combined I don't remember anyone mentioning that it combined 2 parts of the old Standard Oil that was a broken up years ago.
Big money / Dark money NEEDS to be taken OUT of all government. After this, all will self-heal.
The United States ought to maintain the funding for climate change in the same way that it maintains funding for national defense.
Wait a minute now...u cant cut into the gun guys profits. F the military industrial complex in the US
@@jenniferriggin8976 it is not a choice ,the US has a lot of enemies it has to put defense ahead.
@@pietrojenkins6901 climate change poses a greater risk to America than any nation does.
US should not defend Ukraine.
@@jakebredthauer5100 please do elaborate on why u think that.
America is a place of intelligence and negligence at the same level
We need to end our reliance on non-renewable energy sources.
Certainly Do.
420ppm c02 in the air right now.
Methane tipping point crossed. Growing exponentially now. Check out NOAA article on methane from few weeks ago.
Mitigate what we can. But the rich you know what's would rather us all die for a couple green backs. Wild times. End times. Beginning times. Lord have mercy on these rich criminals. 100 companies ending our species.
No, We need to forget about climate change. And racism..
@@melaniecotterell8263
Forget about it? Tell that to people in India lol. Forget that it's 112 degrees since March lol. I hate to ask this to a rando but are you cruel or just like not so bright? 🤔
They don't want to allow that to happen...because too many cronies are making billions from that
Wind Energy
Thank you Frontline! Amazing journalistic investigation!
+1
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Watching PBS Frontline documentaries is the same as attending a college class worth 3 credits!
but no tests or attendance reqs. I always told them, I pay for the classes, I'll show up if I want, and if I can't pass your tests, it's on me, but I always did.
it really is
@@jenwendy7 Even CC's aren't that easy.
A college class worth 3 cents.
I like how at 41:57, David Koch has to refer to a note card to remember the name of the organization he co-founded.
busy man has a lot to remember. At least he didn't forget the prime ministers name with the guy standing right next to him. Or god's name.
Him and his brother belong in prison for a very long time. Dishonest greedy bastards.
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Frontline is great, I’m glad they got this out while a few of these grifters are still alive, but no action will take place until it’s a full catastrophe, it’s already too late
If it's already too late, why bother?
Decrease magnitude of effects
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there's not a home run renewable alternative. if there was it'd already take over the capital market.
Grifter = Gore ? I AGREE 100%
Your program is proof that if the young people in this country don't stand up, pull their heads out, and take over, there will be no world for them to inherit.
true. but we have to ask ourselves, do the Young ppl want to do that? Many of them have just given up and have accepted that they inherited a doomed earth , and are just waiting for the end.
Another snowflake drank the kool-aid. I get my proof from MY experience. There has been no warming. Same as it's ever been.
That goes for wayyyy more than just oil consumption. There's many more critical issues and decisions to address before it's too late, such as human population increasing worldwide by billions more. As a fellow scientist, climate change created by humans is still unclear or uncertain. The Ice Age just ended 13,000 years ago. And Volcanoes are erupting around the world the last two years at alarming rate spewing emissions into the atmosphere. But one thing that is 100% for sure is we don't need anymore humans!!! And that is a fact we can see first hand right now with NO science. The human population explosion is terrible on the earth!!!!! People want to blame human error and earth's problems on fossil fuels!!!
@@raycolejr7538
That overpopulation myth is being orchestrated by the same people killing your planet
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Let's not forget that they're responsible for the Plastic's Problem, too.
Ahh yes, plastic. The great idea of what to do with all the leftover crap from oil distillation. Scary times indeed friend.
@@vitamind1200 Now what?
Eliminate plastic?
@@jakebredthauer5100 Essentially, YES! But, also, the oil companies must be forced to clean-up the world of plastics and either truly put in place actual-useable recycling centers that aren't just bullcrud, or find some other way to deal with it!!
The cost of recycling should be applied to the cost of the product.
The more something costs, the fewer will want to buy it.
Plus, only those who use the plastics would pay.
As it is, we all bear the cost.
If only the users paid and it were priced out of the market, part of that problem would be resolved
@@patshelby9285 who doesn't use plastic though?
CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed about 78% of the total GHG emission increase from 1970 to 2010.
Globally, economic and population growth continue to be the most important drivers of increases in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. [IPCC, 2014]
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Those guys spent 20 years working for oil companies, made lots of money, then after retirement they are regreted. Easy way to contribute to the society, speak out to try to reduce their karma!
Nice part 2!!!
In the end everyone losses. You can't make money lying in a coffin.
Life is not about money or material gain it's about love relationships and staying RIGHTIOUS within ones self and not giving in to evil or allowing it to be used through us the struggle is real but we can overcome by never giving up never giving in and always doing what is right for us and our children that is how you win
@@ericmorse2251 You would hope that that would be what life is about. But that is not true for a lot of people.
I agree, except for one minor point, lots of people make money lying in a coffin. Michael Jackson is still making boat loads of money. And so are like 50 other people I can think of off the top of my head, and more if I look it up….. but yes, I agree with your point. Climate change affects us all and is very serious.
@@yvonneplant9434 You can't avoid lying in a coffin if you don't make any money. There is a lot at stake on this thing on both sides. On one side are the super wealthy globalists who want to shut off energy and cause depopulation. On the other side are people who want to continue to live. I think we know whose side Frontline is on.
Koch brothers and the Exxon CEO's and all their shareholders will be long dead at a ripe old age before global warming snuffs out humanity. I may not even live to see the glorious end of our species.
Amazing, this is free, so high quality. Thank you
7:55 Jerry Taylor out here saying if you look back in a hundred years and ask where we went wrong he says I'm right here I am where we went wrong.
Love you guys @Frontline!!!!!
Your journalism, is amazing & I'm grateful that you guys have made it available to everyone.
Please keep it coming and don't change your objectivity and accuracy is unparalleled. I'll go as far as to say that we need this more now, than maybe any other times in modern history! ✌️💜💜💜💜💜
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Content like this makes me happy that YT exists.
As my hero, the late great philosopher-king, George Carlin used to opine: "It's BS, folks. It's all BS, and it's bad for ya." Can be broadly applied to almost ANY professions from American corporations. Stress R Us
Finally part 2, i've been checking everyday for it.
Frontline airs Tuesdays, so pt. III will air on Tuesday the 3rd of May 2022.
I second that!!! I'm going back to re-watch part1 before I start this. This is probably the most important issue facing our world today and it sickens me to see these greedy profiteers bald face lie to people they are supposed to be representing. I just hope we can get it figured out before we have to start asking, "Hey, do you remember when we had rain forests and glaciers??" Or when our coastlines existed in the place we remembered them being. My apologies to all the children of the world.
@@vitamind1200
What about global nuclear war?
@@jakebredthauer5100 What about Russia’s state owned oil companies like Gazprom that sells oil to countries such as China?!? Also Russia is threatening the world now and they are blackmailing Europe with withholding the natural gas they sell to Poland and other NATO countries 😭
@@jdenino6022
I do not understand
what you are asking me.
Imagine your home filling up with smoke and claiming its not coming from a heat source in the house. Claiming it's just a natural occurrence? OMG!
Imagine having a cancer that could kill you. One doctor tells you there is only one treatment and it has to start immediately. It will destroy your body, have long lasting negative affects that will leave you debilitated for the rest of your life never able to live normally again. But he also does not guarantee it will cure you. In fact it will do little to fight the cancer.
Another doctor tells you. That your body has been fighting the cancer on it's own effectively. It hasn't the means to cure you yet but it has begun reversing some of the damage the cancer has done. With time and care your body ultimately will build a strong enough defense and defeat the cancer. You also get to go about your life with minimal sacrifices and practically live a normal life.
The first doctor recieves money from the company that provides the debilitating and potentially deadly treatment. For every patient on it the doctor gets a heafty cut from the manufacturer. The manufacturer also makes the stuff that gave you cancer.
The other doctor is just an ethical doctor with good intentions for your health but he is silenced by the first doctor because the first doctor and the manufacturer would loose a lot of money.
This narrator is the best
“Science progresses one funeral at a time.” There’s a special place in hell for Lee Raymond, the Koch brothers, Cheney and everyone else who puts their pocketbooks ahead of truth.
Many there are that occupy that same level of hell or will soon. Cheney and Koch Bros alone need to go soon.
Cheney. That evil mother Fer. How could one nation produce so much toxic waste that walked on two legs.
Koch spends 500 million $$ a year so he can corrupt the government and poison the world, what a f'n sociopathic maniac.
I would take that one big step further. All these goons you mentioned put money and power ahead of the lives of your children and grandchildren, who (almost definitely at this point) will live on a planet suffering severe consequences from climate change.
@@DirtFlyer
Are you saying oil is evil?
From tobacco, to auto safety, to opiates, and now oil…is there any example of where an industry both recognized a threat to public health from its products and then did the right thing? It always seems that industry thinks of profits first and looks to suppress and distort reality to that end. It always falls to outside public and governmental forces to fight for public health.
Don’t forget the food industry. They’ve done it/are doing it too.
they should be held criminally liable.
Will never happen.
@@dcmirkDamien 0:
I'm watching part3 tonight
Superb documentary as usual from pbs.
Propaganda. Effective and well produced. Whitman said it all, caps on carbon was virtue signaling, it did nothing for the climate
13:38 Lee Raymond with the MOB in red behind him says a lot without saying a lot. There’s a special place in hell for people like him.
There never going to stop until it’s too late, thanks Frontline another excellent documentary
It's already way too late.
It's already too late. No reason to stop now, just speed it along to get it over with quickly.
@@dcmirk Uhhhh, that's an absolutely horrible and irresponsible thing to 'say,' you sound like Bobby Knight telling rape victims to just sit back and enjoy it since they can't stop it. He deserves to find out just exactly how that feels and would be on himself, though even gays would need to be high as a kite to dare touching that saggy flesh bag.
They won't stop ever, it's already way too late and they ain't slowing down!!
Its already too late
Strip every last dime from every last Executive/Family/Politician/Fund/Thinktank responsible for lies! Take it all and put them in prision
What floors me is how a corporation which makes huge profits, have the balls to ask for taxpayer supported subsidies,than sticks it to those same taxpayers at the pumps, at every opportunity.
La plus ca change…
@@lizannewhitlow1085 Make some sense- nes pai.?
@@tr7b410 Mais oui!
@@tr7b410 the more things change?
There are no morals in Capitalism.
When I saw Naomi Oreskes at 0:28, I was pleased--she wrote the definitive book on the subject of climatre denialism--but after watching the entire doc, I never heard a peep from her. Did I miss something?
I watched this on TV a few hours ago. Iy is helpful to subsequently have it online to remember names, dates, events.
I also remember watching the Charlie Rose segment with the oil exec well over a decade ago
It was a shame that 'inappropriate conduct' allegations led to the end of his excellent and extensive interviews.
I've been groped and assaulted by plenty of drunk, horny women, so I agree with the whole "conduct" misuse by some women when they aren't really any better to men if they get the chance.
Thanks big oil..thanks GOP...AZ is on fire....good job. And it is just getting started. And hardly any water to put the wildfires out. Now open loop...burning out of control. But the oil barons are sure rich.
God will get even
@@fredmitchel1236 While they're guilty of concealing information that could have shaped public policy, the fact we're guilty too. All of us have been and still are the primary end consumer. I think I consume less than 'average', both in terms of driving and household use. While I hope to make my next vehicle either electric or hybrid, I will likely remain a gas burner for years to come. Similarly, most people in the U.S. will still be burning gas, both in their vehicles and at home 10 years from now.
For grins, I just Googled for the price of the economy model Tesla, Model 3 ...."from $47,000'. However, throw in other hidden costs (warranty, etc.) and a few options that most want, and the price is a lot more. I see an ad for a used 2022 model 3 for $58,000. I also see a used 2022, high performance model 'S Plaid' for $143,000. Even for the economy model 3, most people will balk at paying that much over the next few years. In addition to cost, the infrastructure is not yet in place to go most anywhere and easily find a recharge station. In contrast, there are over 145,000 fueling stations in the U.S. Then, there's the recharge time (~20 minutes for a partial, 2 to 3+ hours for a full charge). That means the thru-put of vehicles per hour per charging station is a lot less than a gas pump island.
Lastly, if an EV runs out of charge before reaching a charging plug, you're screwed. A friend was driving between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and got caught for hours in a traffic jam behind a major accident. (It was likely hot, with drivers running their A/C while waiting) For anyone who ran out of gas, a tow truck or the like could just add a gallon or two to each vehicle so they could reach the next station. But once the traffic started to flow, he saw a lot of EVs (mostly Teslas) still parked on the side of the road. Tow trucks are NOT equipped to charge an EV. Even if a few rigs do have recharge capability, they would be only capable to do so at a S L O W trickle compared to a charging station (which offer 100 and even 200 Amps at 240 Volts or even higher), let alone dumping in a couple gallons of gas. That means the EV drivers had to wait to be towed. None of this makes me want to run to the nearest EV dealer.
My point to all this is that all of us who drive or fly, and to a lesser extent, all of us who take mass transportation on a regular basis and/or order a lot of stuff online that's delivered to our home and office, are the end user who sustains the demand and market, myself included. The same goes for home energy use.
@@gregparrott we have a 2006 Honda which my son mostly uses, it only cost $22,000 brand new and has only 80k miles on it. It’s fuel efficient, cheap to insure, gets about 2 oil changes a year and can probably last another 80k miles easily. It’s a very simple car with a 4 cylinder ivtec engine and my son can’t afford a Tesla as he is also going to school online mostly at home and he only makes $23,000 a year at a home improvement store near our house.🙂
@@jdenino6022 The government has sporadically offed rebates/subsidies to help offset the premium cost of EVs. Still, a lot of people will either keep an older gas/Diesel vehicle for many years to come, or find a shortcoming with an EV, as I did in 2017. My pickup truck was getting too old and given the high price of used ones, the price of a new one (relatively base model) was not much more. Electric pickups weren't available in 2017. But even if the new Ford or Rivian (or soon to be released Tesla) pickup was available today, I can't see buying it. Even ignoring the price, it does not have the range. And if you're towing anything (an expected task for a pickup), the range and time spent recharging become unacceptable. PLUS, it you're going to be camping off grid, you're again faced with no access to a recharge station without also towing a ridiculously large generator AND a pile of gas or Diesel to run it. When the alternative for a gas/Diesel truck is just carrying a small auxiliary fuel tank (if any), the EV pickup just does not make sense for long distance, and off-grid use.
The means to profit have always come from the minds of little men. If it means leading us to extinction for them to remain in control, that's what they will do.
They profit from selling a product that people wanted. Nobody forced anybody to buy anything. If they think the product harms the environment, they are evil for using it.
@@melaniecotterell8263 You´re a little man, I´m afraid. Very little few people can choose what to use or not: alternative energy is extremely expensive, poor people has no choice at all. Let´s say they work in a factory because they need to work and put food on their family´s table: what´re they supposed to do???? NOT to use the factory?? Or what?? Disconnect themselves from the electric power line, water supply? Cook with... what? Dust?? (charcoal and trees burned are huge CO2 emissors, so they´r both out of the ecuation). To walk 6 or 8 hours a day to get into their jobs? Are you delussional?? Oh! Maybe you´re one of the paid ones from the industry, I see. Little man on both cases, indeed.
Well, no one forces me to own a car, so I don't.@@melaniecotterell8263
People keep waiting on a change and don’t have sense enough to come in out the rain, and so it goes.
Siiiiiinging in the RAAAYYN
I have always got a job, that I can walk to. I can pay all my bills
on foot, as well . BRILLIANT 🚶♀️
Thanks you Frontline for amazing work and information n always getting the truth out there n for that I thank you so much. Greed Greed the over human lives God bless America 🇺🇸
Nobody mentions that one good reason to take measures to “Go Green” is to save money.
I installed my first energy-saving light bulbs not because they used less electricity but because they lasted longer (I was sick of always having to replace two certain light bulbs in my house because they have a high usage).
I installed insulation, double-glazing, heat pumps, solar hot water panels, a double floor in my living room (downstairs) and got my Natural Gas supply cut off all in order to save money.
My electricity usage (and therefore what I pay) is now half of what it would be if I hadn’t done all those things.
Excellences. Can’t wait for part 3. I see the world so much clearer now
Something I could never get my head around was why in the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, we see Al Gore still driving a gas SUV, when he surely could afford an EV. This was particularly weird since in the first movie he had advocated we move to electric transportation. Well, no matter what anyone says, or does, EVs are still the way forwards (though we also need less expensive, smaller/better use-case options going forward, not more luxury speed monsters).
I mean, EVs still have a lot of issues. Number one being variety, which is better now, but until recently it was basically just Tesla. And Tesla has a load of issues in and of itself. I would never own one, even if I could afford one.
Plus, mile range and charging times are a factor. And I haven't seen it so I don't know but if he'd had the car for a couple years it could end up being more wasteful to just buy a new car.
I just tried to google to see what type of car he drives currently but it's all just articles attacking him so, who knows.
Gore was talk....my question is why aren't you taking personal action. You can see the "I can't afford a Tesla" crybaby who also commented.
Amazing how a $6500 EV I purchased in 2019 used is working excellently.
@@anthonybha4510 You missed the entire point of my comment. Congratulations.
I specifically said I wouldn't own a tesla either way for many reasons.
Nice anecdote about you finding a cheap tesla though. Not like location, market, and luck have anything to do with it.
I have nothing against EVs, I'll probably try to get one when my current car dies, but you won't catch me dead in a tesla.
John Kerry flies a private jet. A one-person war on the climate. WTF does he do that can't be done on a Zoom call? Oh, the prostitutes, I forgot about what they do after hours.
I don't like that either. Al Gore pushes for clean energy, so why not do everything you can as a high profile climate change activist to drive EVs and practice what you preach? I feel the same exact way about Leonardo DiCaprio, who is another climate change activist. Why does he continue to fly private jets all around the world? You guys are high profile powerful people with more money than anyone is ever going to see in their lifetime, why don't you practice what you preach?
Cheney, a conservative, putting his love of money before the land his Creator entrusted to him. Thoughts and prayers as another conservative burns for eternity.
The devil has kept him alive with six heart operations. No wonder he must have all the lights on in every room he's in, as he fears the dark and the devil waiting for his soul to be dragged down to hell where he belongs!!
@@user-ux2yg7dq7y about time
I saw a bunch of Biden voters putting gasoline in their cars. They are just as responsible as Dead Dick is. Or more.
Superb programming!
Great job
And Cigs never cause cancer ...said tobacco ...
imagine that the future of our planet was decided in a tuesday meeting 10:00 to 10:30 am
I appreciate your work ! I’ve learned so much from you
when's the global class action lawsuit?! We are still subsidizing fossil fuels with $11,000,000 per MINUTE! WTF?!?
I wonder how they'll keep behaving like this if crude oil and petroleum reserves run out in a couple of decades.
The sooner the better.
It wont. And they know that.
And in a blink USA / world lost 20+ years researching alternative solutions.
“Some incumbent can sit their all fat and happy thinking he’s ensconced,” said the incumbent sitting their fat and happy.
Okay, this three part series is turning out to be very interesting, I'm on part 2 and I'm totally glued to this, good work Frontline.
This was at about the same time I saw TV ads funded by big oil, that claimed that more CO2 would be great, aka everything greener. And I'm like yeah BS.
Why would a warmer earth not be an improvement? Certainly, better than it is getting colder. More CO2 improves crop yields. Warming allows more land for farming. But it's not getting warmer. Not even 1 deg f IN 45 YEARS.
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Just watch the three-part series a few more times. Better yet read the book Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes. It has hundreds and hundreds of footnotes and references to the source materials. A book, a mind, and a parachute all function best when they are opened. Happy reading.
I appreciate your work Frontline! I’ve learned so much from you guys and feel smarter just watching lol
Brilliant !
Money, and the greed of men, will kill us all. I'm an Atheist, but this saying has meaning for me.
"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" - Mark 8:36
All major oil producing companies and governments must establish a global trust fund to finance the restoration of the climate.
What does that mean? Nothing has happened.
I agree. They must invest big time in planting mangroves, etc. to absorb CO2. They must invest big time in renewable energy.
@@MinusEighty I agree with Ed Denoy. They must invest big time in planting mangroves, etc. to absorb CO2. They must invest big time in renewable energy.
@@karimshariff2702 We are already switching to renewable power. Exxon has nothing to do with power, oil is used to fuel cars not to provide electricity. Oil use will go down as we ramp up evs which is happening at a very rapid rate. So no hand wringing is necessary.
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How is electricity (coal) renewable?
Also: The American Geophysical Union -- that purports to be a professional scientific institution -- _still_ takes money from Exxon. After protestations from members and in contravention of its own guidelines. And the PBS science documentary series NOVA is part-funded by the so-called "David H. Koch Fund for Science". What's wrong with this picture?
"Debate IS Performance Art"
Actually, it's what it has become and that distortion of purpose has led to the corruption of the art and manipulation of trust.
We do a great job
The love of money and power will have people destroy their own world... these billionaires dont give af about you
Chaos, there's only two inches of topsoil left.
Chaos reigns
I haven't owned a car in 25 years, I'm sixty now! Why can't more Americans sacrifice their gas addiction for this planet? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
This reminds me when the Cigarette manufacturers were denying Cancer... It would be Hilarious if it wasn't so F****** Pitiful... 'Nuff said!!!...
What is needed is to bring down the monopolies to realize that there needs to be a more comprehensive coarse of action and thus far remove their own current narrative and of the information that is factual. Break them up into smaller identities! We believe that everyone has one voice and one vote. Our vote must be counted for what we believe. Monopolies not only counter productive our grievances but they control the narrative so that your vote doesn’t make a difference. They have powerful lobbyists who do whatever it takes for them to keep doing what they are doing. No company should have this much power!
The word you want is entities not identities.
You know what's messed up is all these oil companies that are so incredibly good at drilling Wells if they could just drill a little bit farther they could hit the hot enough crust of the Earth that would give us all the energy that we could ever need and never have to burn another fossil-fuel again. Geothermal power generation can never be depleted should be the only thing this world consumes for energy and it's there just waiting for us to tap into it. Anybody that reads this comment please look farther into this and understand that the technology is there it's just the fossil fuel Giants of the world will keep it down as long as they can
That would be rather problematic on the drilling equipment .
Can't make money on free energy. Greed is the death knell of empathy and good sense.
8:35. Life expectancy is up?? No, it is not. It has dropped for several years. When did this hack say this?
Life expectancy has gone down for several years in US. At least one of those years was before COVID-19.
God Bless America and I Truly mean That ! . .. after watching both episodes. Thanks to PBS and its Frontline investigative Documentary.
At the end of the day, we see clearly tht "money run things" no matter if the data shows how obviously serious the situation is.
People vote for that.
I used to loathe George W. Bush and couldn't stand him. I thought he was the dumbest President we ever had. Then we got Donald Trump, and now I stand corrected. #45 is now the head of that class, lol. Sorry GW. I was wrong about you good sir.
Oh yes! I agree. And kudos to all the politicians and industry types who have not succumbed to a bad case of pride issues. (Dishonesty)
USA will be ravaged horribly by climate change--as well as the rest of the world!!!!!
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Brandon.
You weren't wrong, he was one of the worst and still is, though Trump(ers) have found a new level of slime to roll in! GW Jr. said it himself, "At least I'm not the worst president ever now." No, GW, you're not, but with Cheney running YOU and our evil govt, you're still damned close!!
Trump is smarter than all of those who came before him combined. He exposed the MSM for the liars that they are. He made them become censors. He exposed fake news. What more can you ask from a single person? Trump's IQ is 15 pts. higher than Obamas and 30 pts. higher than Bidens. At least. GHB may have come closer. Rest of them were sub morons.
I see the direction this country is going,
What's disturbing is not that someone has a stick in their eye that is blinding them, it is they don't have enough sense to take the stick out of their eye so that they can see.
It's amazing how we only seem capable of focusing on the short term "wins" while we sell our children's and grandchildren's futures down the river. We're like the frog in the pot of water as it heats to a boil, not realizing it dieing. And not much smarter either.
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The fact that climate change started started more than 1k years ago should not be ignored.
The beauty of all this is that the catastrophe has arrived right now so that generation that refused to make even symbolic sacrifices on behalf of the climate will lose everything and suffer the full measure of punishment for their reckless irresponsibility.