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The Hartmann Report

WILL OIL COMPANIES EVER BE LIABLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Will we finally learn to have responsibility for the damage we are doing to the climate of our life-giving planet? Will the Anthropocene be an age of humans coming into balance with the earth, or will we sink deeper into an era of catastrophic planetary chaos?

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:47.6

Alex Jones got hit with a billion dollar roughly, penalty for the lies,

0:53.2

the the defamatory lies that he told about the Sandy Hook families.

0:57.3

Telling his listeners and making apparently he's apparently worth about 240 million dollars

1:02.9

of press reports are to be believed, you know, which is just breathtaking. I mean, I'm in this

1:07.2

business and I had no idea that you could make that kind of money if you were a right-winger,

1:13.2

hustling vitamin products and you know, it's just that, I mean, that's just breathtaking.

1:19.2

They hit him with this huge penalty and it raises an interesting question.

1:23.2

I mean, the victims of Alex Jones's lies are identifiable, right? There's there's 20 children

1:28.8

and six adults who were murdered at Sandy Hook. The families of those people are the victims of

1:34.6

Jones's lies. So we know who they are. But I think this raises a really vital question.

1:40.1

When are the victims of the oil companies' lies?

1:44.1

Lies that the fossil fuel industry has been peddling intentionally, knowing the damage that

1:51.3

their products would cause, has been intentionally peddling since the 1980s, since the Reagan

1:57.3

administration. When will the victims of the oil companies' lies have their day in court?

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