What Will Happen If the Fossil Fuel Industry Ignores Climate Change Pressures?

Here’s news of a current study that suggests that, if it ignores climate change pressures, the fossil fuel industry will suffer a level of public relations so damaging that it will have a crippling financial effect.

From your lips to God’s ears, as they say in cliché-land.  But is it even remotely possible?

The cigarette companies still sell their wares (the only legal product that, when used as directed, causes death) to smokers worldwide. That’s 19% of the adult population buying a product with a huge profit margin associated with this.  These companies are pretty thoroughly hated by the other 81% of us (they’re regarded as existing on the same level of moral degradation as child molesters), but that doesn’t even slow them down in their business activities.