If the world did not depend on fossil fuel the Russian invasion of Ukraine could not happen.

Back in the 1980s when ExxonMobil determined global warming would render humans extinct they decided to hide that information. They continued to drill & sell fossil fuel. They continued bringing humans closer to extinction.

If instead ExxonMobil announced a plan to use oil profits to invest In solar, wind & hydro power the world would not be dependent on fossil fuel. 

Saudi energy would be solar power. 

Saudi Kings would not murder U.S. journalists & grow stronger from that murder. Saudi kings would lose control & possibly cease to exist.

Russia would be solar, wind & hydro powered. Russia’s economy would not be dependent on oil, gas & coal. And the Russian invasion of Ukraine could not happen. 

OK, this is an oversimplification. However if ExxonMobil joined with the federal government on a massive Kennedy Space Program investment in solar, wind & hydro power 40 years ago the rest of the world would follow or perish economically. 

Oil, coal & gas would now be insignificant and part of history. 

The Russian/Ukraine war couldn’t happen. Putin’s control of Russia would be unlikely. 

And most importantly our grandchildren would not perish on an overheated earth.

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"Early research

From the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Exxon, one of predecessors of ExxonMobil, had a public reputation as a pioneer in climate change research.^[1] Exxon funded internal and university collaborations, broadly in line with the developing public scientific approach, and developed a reputation for expertise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂).^[2] Between the 1970s and 2015, Exxon and ExxonMobil researchers and academic collaborators published dozens of research papers.^[3] ExxonMobil provided a list of over 50 article citations from that period.^[4][5]

In July 1977, a senior scientist of Exxon, James Black reported to the company's executives that there was a general scientific agreement at that time that the burning of fossil fuels was the most likely manner in which mankind was influencing global climate change.^[6][7][8] In 1979–1982, Exxon conducted a research program of climate change and climate modeling, including a research project of equipping their largest supertanker Esso Atlantic with a laboratory and sensors to measure the absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans.^[9][10] In 1980, Exxon noted that synthetic fuels increase CO₂ emissions over their petroleum equivalents.^[11][12] Exxon also studied ways of avoiding CO₂ emissions if the East Natuna gas field (Natuna D-Alpha block) off Indonesia was to be developed.^[13]

In 1981, Exxon shifted its research focus to climate modelling.^[14] In 1982, Exxon's environmental affairs office circulated an internal report to Exxon's management which said that the consequences of climate change could be catastrophic, and that a significant reduction in fossil fuel consumption would be necessary to curtail future climate change. It also said that "there is concern among some scientific groups that once the effects are measurable, they might not be reversible."^[15]

In 1992, the senior ice researcher, leading a research team in Exxon's Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, assessed how global warming could affect Exxon's Arctic operations, and reported that exploration and development costs in the Beaufort Sea might be lower, while higher sea levels and rougher seas could threaten the company's coastal and offshore infrastructure.^[16][17] Imperial included these forecasts into its facility planning in the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories. In 1996, Mobil, another predecessor of ExxonMobil, calculated the climate changes effect to the Sable gas field project. An ExxonMobil spokesperson said that standard practice in major project planning is to consider a range of factors, and that ExxonMobil's consideration of environmental risks was not inconsistent with their public policy advocacy.^[18]

In 2016, the Center for International Environmental Law, a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm, claimed that from 1957 onward Humble Oil, one of predecessors of nowadays ExxonMobil, was aware of rising CO₂ in the atmosphere and the prospect that it was likely to cause global warming. ExxonMobil responded to this claim that "to suggest that we had definitive knowledge about human-induced climate change before the world's scientists is not a credible thesis.”^[19]"

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ExxonMobil climate change controversy