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Kaufman: BP PR exec admitted 'Beyond Petroleum' was mere marketing
“That PR professional was named John Kenny, and he, in, in, as early as 2006, he acknowledged it was all a devious marketing effort. It was not a sincere effort by PP to promote some sort of shift to, you know, low carbon energy or renewable energy. And he actu…”
Kaufman: Climate change can be solved without everyone caring about it
“Not everyone has to care about climate change for us to fix the problem. And that is a wonderful thing because not everyone will care about climate change.”
Kaufman: BP still tweets urging individuals to calculate carbon footprints
“And even today, British Petroleum is still tweeting things, encouraging people to calculate their carbon footprint.”
Kaufman: Montreal Protocol succeeded through regulation, not consumer guilt
“We wouldn't have gotten there if instead of having global nations all agree together to phase out these ozone-depleting chemicals, if the solution was, hey, try to reduce your ozone footprint. Try to use less hairspray, folks. That wouldn't have gotten us anyw…”