The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 1: First Day of School

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fossil fuel companies didn't start infiltrating schools when climate change appeared on the scene, they were there shaping the minds of future citizens for decades before then. The industry has been laying the groundwork for inaction on climate since long before this crisis reared its ugly head, limiting how Americans are allowed to think about the environment and the economy. In this first episode of our new miniseries with Earther, Dharna Noor and Amy Westervelt look at how Big Oil first got into the education game, and why it worked so well.

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/the-abcs-of-big-oil-why-big-oil-infiltrated-schools-1847734544
Pre-order Katie Worth's book Miseducation: https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/miseducation/
Check out the Frontline report on the Marshall Islands: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-last-generation/

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0:00.0	I was sitting on the sea wall.
0:02.0	I didn't see the wave coming.
0:04.0	It just pushed me off and I thought it was something else.
0:08.0	I thought it was like a monster.
0:10.0	My grandmother told me to come to the church.
0:14.0	So I ran here and sit, washing everybody yelling,
0:21.0	washing the babies crying.
0:24.0	It was not good.
0:28.0	What can you do to cope with each impact of climate change?
0:34.0	I think the best thing I learn is to do an action plan.
0:40.0	As I'm dedicated to this place,
0:43.0	like I was destined to be in this place.
0:47.0	That's why I'm going to stay here.
0:49.0	I'm not going to leave.
0:51.0	I'm going to stay watch,
0:55.0	even if it means to drown.
1:01.0	The effects were already very visible.
1:05.0	I guess we were doing a film.
1:07.0	We wanted to capture it.
1:09.0	So while we were there, we talked to all these kids.
1:11.0	And we were really struck by how much they knew about climate change.
1:15.0	Like, they were more conversant in the causes and effects of climate change.
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