You’ll never guess who’s pushing back on Trump’s anti-environment agenda

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1. Lead Paragraphs:

   Oil giant Exxon Mobil’s CEO is urging Donald Trump not to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a historic climate treaty signed by almost every country in the world pledging to reduce emissions and reverse the damaging effects of climate change.

   “We need a global system for managing global emissions,” CEO Darren Woods told The New York Times in a Tuesday interview at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. “Trump and his administrations have talked about coming back into government and bringing common sense back into government. I think he could take the same approach in this space.”

2. We live in the weirdest timeline.

3. Perhaps Big Oil already worked really hard to put plants in the system regarding the Paris accords, and they fear losing control of the narratives of the existing “anti-oil” machine, as this doesn’t allow them great control of global greenification timelines.

   Imagine if big oil didn’t lead the charge on convincing America to recycle! We would have either actually implemented recycling, or people would have quickly discovered it’s not feasible (never was) and moved to a better solution.

4. “Don’t take our fig leaf away”- Darren Woods probably

5. Maybe they’re getting generous subsidies for bullshit projects like carbon capture or mild improvements they would/should have done anyway.

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