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The law, it's not sacred, and to challenge it shakes our consciousness.

If you can take that radical action in a way that genuinely speaks to everybody else,

then you not only have their attention, you have their inspiration, and you build movements that way.

Welcome to the Best of a Left Podcast with Cups Today from the 350.org's documentary

disobedience. The young Turks, counterspin, the David Pakman show, and activism today from 350.org

Break free 2016.

There's nothing radical about anything we're talking about. Radicals work at all companies.

If you are willing to get up in the morning and make your fortune by altering

chemical composition of the atmosphere, and you're willing to do it one scientist,

told you what would happen, and once you've seen it happen, once you watch the Arctic start to

melt, if you're willing to do that, then you're a radical, and our job is to try and check that radicalism.

An investigation is underway into Exxon Mobile, the huge oil company buried research about the

effects of climate change. Reports suggest more than 30 years ago, Exxon's own scientists were

taking climate change projections into account in its operational plans.

Exxon was on the cutting edge of science. They wanted to be on the cutting edge of science

40 years ago on climate change. They understood that farther down the road, if the science was accurate,

there would be limits placed on emissions from fossil fuels. So their strategy at that time was that

we want to have a say in what those limits look like. When their senior scientists told their

senior executives what was coming, Exxon started making sure that all its drilling rigs were

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