ExxonMobil, one of the world’s leading fossil fuel companies, has recently been the subject of an extremely popular social media hashtag: #ExxonKnew. I, like many other social media users, had no idea what this meant or why it was popping up all over my timelines, but after doing a little digging online, quickly found a startling explanation.
Exxon knew about the perils of climate change, but did nothing with this knowledge.
Climate change is, at its heart, a warming of the Earth that serves as the driving force behind natural disasters like droughts and super-storms such as Hurricane Sandy or Hurricane Patricia.