US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse criticized the Democratic Party and climate movement for being too cautious in addressing the fossil fuel industry's denial operation. He described it as the largest propaganda effort in the country's history, aimed at protecting over $700 billion in subsidies for environmental and health damages from fossil fuels. Whitehouse emphasized the need for stronger denunciation of the fossil fuel industry, accusing both parties of inadequate responses to the climate crisis, particularly calling out Republicans' close ties to the industry and their neglect of scientific reality.
The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen. It is defending a $700-plus billion [annual] subsidy of not being charged for the health and environmental damages caused by burning fossil fuels. I think the more people understand that, the more they'll be irate [that] they've been lied to.
Democrats have not done a good job of calling that out. To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts-if that's not a good definition of evil, I don't know what is.
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