It happens that the well-oiled mechanics of communication seize up.
Exxon had the painful experience of this in 2015, when journalists revealed that the American oil company, known in France for its subsidiary Esso, had long predicted the ongoing climate tragedy… while preferring to deny the danger.
If the arguments exchanged internally have since been stale, this is less the case for the data.
This Thursday, January 12, Harvard researchers are publishing, in the journal Science, a detailed analysis of all the figures available to the firm on the environmental impact of the activity of its sector.
Their results are edifying: from the end of the 1970s, the oil group's experts showed incredible acuity.
Alarms that its leaders could not ignore.
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