"If our despair is validated and understood, it can loosen its vice grip and graciously move over to share its seat, making space for more generative co-occurring responses..." - so beautiful and so helpful. I often berate myself when I feel despair. And thank you for sharing Lindsey's courageous story. It cannot be overstated how difficult it is to go against the grain, especially in corporate cultures with such entrenched power. Here's to more courageous individuals like her!
Thank you for sharing this. It is impactful to have people sharing this type of personal experience, in addition to more quantitative figures of the impact of the fossil fuel industry when it comes to delay, disinformation and policy. The part about the trust Lindsay had for her colleagues stood out to me. This part was also striking: "It occurred to me in pretty stark terms that if ExxonMobil is willing to lie about garden variety fraud – if they're willing to defraud investors and shareholders in a setting which is very well regulated and audited, and then they're willing to go ahead and violate a few more laws by firing the people who told them to stop violating laws, again in violation of of pretty clear statutes – that there was really nothing that would stop executives from lying about the energy transition"
"If our despair is validated and understood, it can loosen its vice grip and graciously move over to share its seat, making space for more generative co-occurring responses..." - so beautiful and so helpful. I often berate myself when I feel despair. And thank you for sharing Lindsey's courageous story. It cannot be overstated how difficult it is to go against the grain, especially in corporate cultures with such entrenched power. Here's to more courageous individuals like her!
Thank you for sharing this. It is impactful to have people sharing this type of personal experience, in addition to more quantitative figures of the impact of the fossil fuel industry when it comes to delay, disinformation and policy. The part about the trust Lindsay had for her colleagues stood out to me. This part was also striking: "It occurred to me in pretty stark terms that if ExxonMobil is willing to lie about garden variety fraud – if they're willing to defraud investors and shareholders in a setting which is very well regulated and audited, and then they're willing to go ahead and violate a few more laws by firing the people who told them to stop violating laws, again in violation of of pretty clear statutes – that there was really nothing that would stop executives from lying about the energy transition"