Watch: Big Oil’s climate deception is “one of the biggest corporate crimes in history”

Big Oil has known and lied about the dangers of fossil fuels for decades, and a new video featuring CCI President Richard Wiles explains how the companies’ efforts to deceive the public constitute “one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.” 

“Climate change is not a tragedy,” Wiles says in the 15-minute segment from More Perfect Union. “Climate change is a crime against humanity committed on the part of these oil companies.” 

California and other states and communities across the country are taking Big Oil to court to hold the companies accountable and make them pay. 

These climate accountability lawsuits are “a huge threat to the industry, and they know it, and that’s why they’re so afraid of these cases,” Wiles says.  

Watch and share the episode below, featuring Wiles, Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta.