ExxonKnews
April 12, 2023
“The potential refugee problem… could be unprecedented. Conflicts would abound. Civilisation could prove a fragile thing,” reads a 1989 prediction for the future if greenhouse gas emissions and global warming went unchecked. That warning didn’t come from an environmental group or governing body — it came from oil giant Shell.
The confidential Shell publication, titled “SCENARIOS 1989 - 2010,” is just one in a new cache of internal documents, reports, academic studies, videos, correspondence, and other newly published materials that lay bare Shell’s early and advanced knowledge of climate change — and how the megapolluter chose to publicly undermine climate science for the sake of a short-term haul.
