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Who's Watching "The Power of Big Oil" (PBS)?

Nov 28, 2010
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I see the first of 3 episodes is ready to watch via the PBS app on my Roku.

This article called my attention to it:

‘What we now know … they lied’: how big oil companies betrayed us all

In a powerful new three-part docuseries, the oil industry is put on trial as the extent of climate change awareness is revealed
Over three episodes – called Denial, Doubt, Delay – the series charts corporate manipulation of science, public opinion and politicians that mirrors actions by other industries from big tobacco to pharmaceutical companies responsible for America’s opioid epidemic.​
Some of those interviewed shamefacedly admit their part in the decades long campaign to hide the evidence of climate change, discredit scientists and delay action that threatened big oil’s profits. Others almost boast about how easy it was to dupe the American public and politicians with consequences not just for the US but every country on the planet.​
What emerges is a picture of a political system so compromised by corporate money that even when it finally appears that truth will win out, reality is swiftly smothered.​

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