By Leng Veasna, 25 March, 2017
According
to the Climate Tracker, tobacco was big, but the fossil fuel industry is
bigger; it’s some of the world’s biggest companies. Even fuel industries play a
very active actor toward the increasing temperature hotter; the organization
that responsible for climate change did not put a very high pressure on fuel
industries by releasing strict regulations or rules to make sure that the temperature
keeps increasing to safe limit, and make those industries pay the compensation
for damage.
Fossil
fuels have devastating impact on environment, human health, species and
ecosystem. Pollution, asthma, bronchitis, cancer, acidic rain, earthquakes,
flooding, pipeline explosion, are hazardously abandoned infrastructure. Those
impacts are the most widespread and inestimably costly. For example, Kenya in
1992, EL Nino destroyed crops, roads, bridges, schools, house and commercial
building and thousands of people killed. Last but not least, Philippine in 2013
at Yolanda, Typhoon killed over 6.300 people, 1 million houses damaged, and 4
million others displaced, and approximately caused 2 billion U.S dollars.
Climate change continues to devastate the world, various solutions and
recommendations have been proposed, and some implemented; to ameliorate the
situation such as mitigation, adaption and compensation for loss and damage
especially from fossil fuel industries such as Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Chevron
Phillips etc.
Similarly,
Climate Tracker also mentioned that U.S court found that tobacco industry
guilty for a decades-long racketeering enterprise in which it conspired to
deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. Tobacco industries seriously destroy
people health relating to the lung cancer along with other harmful diseases.
Moreover, tobacco industries were declared guilty by paying 10 billion U.S
dollar in fines (Climate Tracker). Since then, life of the Tobacco Industry has
become more and more difficult through living under the strict laws and
regulations. So, the same landmark lawsuit against big tobacco, the fossil fuel
industries such as Exxon, Shell and other should be investigated for a similar
claim, only much worse than Tobacco.
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