Climate Cranks Put Up Anti-Fossil Fuels Billboards

They are so amusing

‘Make Polluters Pay’: Big Oil Slammed in Satirical US Billboards

Across the United States this week, the climate disasters fueled by Big Oil will be displayed on billboards in California, New York, Arizona, and Philadelphia.

The bold campaign, launched by non-profit organization Fossil Free Media, calls out the decades of misinformation spread by oil and gas companies as they sowed doubt about the environmental dangers of burning fossil fuels while greenwashing their public image.

The Make Polluters Pay campaign captures the devastating impacts of the climate crisis specific to each state: Images depicting the Paradise fire in California, extreme heatwaves in Arizona, and wreckage left behind by widespread flooding triggered by Hurricane Ida in New York are contrasted with the phrases “Brought to you by Big Oil” and “Superstorms: Sponsored by Big Oil.”

The Paradise Fire was caused by a faulty transmission line in an area prone to drought in a state which refuses to allow clear cutting, cleanup of dead brush, backburns, and fire breaks. Hurricanes happen

According to Cassidy DiPaola, the communications director for the Make Polluters Pay campaign, the group faced push back when trying to place billboards in Houston, Texas. “Billboard owners there weren’t willing to work with us, citing concerns about upsetting their oil and gas industry clients,” said DiPaola, adding that the owners even asked if the message could be made “more positive” and avoid using the term “Big Oil.”

“It’s hard to imagine how you can make homes burning down and people dying from extreme heat into something positive,” continued DiPaola. “This pushback shows just how powerful the fossil fuel industry’s influence is and the fear they instill, even in the advertising world.”

What amuses me is that the people who will see these will be mostly be driving fossil fueled vehicles which get them reliably, dependably, and cheaply to work, school, the store, etc, and have no intention of giving them up. Then, that the billboard stands were erected using fossil fueled machines and vehicles, and them the billboards themselves were transported using fossil fuels. If these people do not want to use fossil fuels, have at it. Leave the rest of us alone.

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