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Will Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?

Hot Mess is a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves. Premiering April 19th, 2018!

Will Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?

We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century Episode 25 | 5m 58s | CC

Today, lawsuits are positioning climate change as this generation's smoking: it pollutes the air, it’s caused by burning chemicals we buy from a handful of huge companies, and it’s dangerous to human health. Fossil fuel companies are being taken to court just like tobacco companies were, because of what they knew and when. Should they be forced to pay for damages from climate change?

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