Shell Oil's Stark Climate Change Warning from 1991

[@journeyman]

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[@EnnDeeKay]

Thanks for this upload.

[@LutherDePapier]

Four and a half minutes in this is the most comprehensive video about climate change I've ever seen in my life. And it is from an oil company. Nearly 30 years ago.

[@janjaapklomp1364]

And they did not change a thing about it!!

[@klokoloko2114]

@@janjaapklomp1364 Those people that made this video do not run company today.

[@think-about-it-777]

I just posted this in a political forum and there's still people arguing about it. lol. I don't see how this can be a debate anymore? we have an oil corporation since the '90s trying to warn us, and then we've got these two documentaries: 1- kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3Kkk5aEoZl_mJo 2- kzbin.info/www/bejne/p37IXnWPiq6Dgrc

[@truthvigilante2180]

@@klokoloko2114 they people who run the company would’ve transitioned to renewable energy if renewable sustainable energy was capable of support civilization and if it ever does become capable the existing energy / oil companies will be the first ones to take over and dominate the industry

[@bovellois]

@@janjaapklomp1364 that's right, is spite of the warning by Shell Oil Company, consumers did not change a thing about it. Consumers can't very well say they weren't told, can they?

[@billiamc1969]

26 years later, the Americans put a top oil executive into one of the most influential political positions...Secretary of State...

[@billiamc1969]

+Ike Costner Such an intellectual response...well done...now go crawl back under your rock and leave the adults alone!!!!

[@billiamc1969]

+Ike Costner BTW...my home is powered by solar you mental midget!!!!

[@ikecostner1]

BeeFriendlyApiary From panels built using petroleum products, wired with cables from mining, refined using petroluem, manufactured in a plant using huge.amounts of petroleum energy, shipped to your home on a truck with petroleum, placed on your home that was built with lumber from a mill that runs off petroleum, WOW UR SO FUCKING GREEN

[@ikecostner1]

You're using batteries that have iron and sulfuric acid mined from the earth using petroleum, you're crying on the internet made possible by energy from petroleum on a cell phone made of plastic a petroleum product...

[@yggdrasil9039]

We need oil for some things, but not to stick in a petrol tank and set fire to, which is where 99% of it goes.

[@jayanand2503]

Video starts at 0:00

[@eks_0]

Thanks!!!!! Spent all night trying to figure it out

[@sanjuacharya]

ha!

[@Shawnne01]

Frightening as to what our world has become today. I guess not enough people were listening back then.

[@OwlPhobe]

And sadly, still not enough people are listening.

[@janjaapklomp1364]

@@OwlPhobe Including shell themselves....

[@LK-pc4sq]

Eventually famine will hit the United States

[@drowsy_mouse8406]

they don't make good documentaries like this anymore.

[@kclinton9856]

I think because there’s a celebrity of individuals who want to present instead of the voiceover which allows the viewer to focus on what is presented not who is presenting. 😕

[@call-1515]

It's a shame not so many people have seen this. There were some comments about how man will adapt to climate change. That might be true, but it might not. The organism at the top of the food chain generally dies out during a mass extinction; thus, history is not in our favor as a species. Even if humans do not go extinct, the prospect of Billions of people dying as a result of changing the climate is a horror show. Unfortunately, the die off will begin within 100 years. Slow in terms of our lifetimes, but a blink of an eye in terms of the age of our planet.

[@think-about-it-777]

I just posted this in a political forum and there's still people arguing about it. lol. I don't see how this can be a debate anymore? we have an oil corporation since the '90s trying to warn us, and then we've got these two documentaries: 1- kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3Kkk5aEoZl_mJo 2- kzbin.info/www/bejne/p37IXnWPiq6Dgrc

[@bovellois]

If they stop having children, humans will go extinct relatively plainlessly. The West is very advanced in that regard.

[@1969JohnnyM]

How can anyone give this a thumbs down. It shows the climate change deniers lack of honesty that even a film from one of the big oil and gas multinationals can be ignored and lets face it with a mentality like that they need a brain transplant.

[@Alosipher]

So John, What do you make of all the people viewing (Debunked: top 5 climate change myths).

[@bovellois]

Similarly, climate change believers don't seem to be in big rush to abandon the lavish lifestyle made possible by the 1000 slave-equivalent units at their disposal. Crude oil has replaced all manual labour to the point that only 2% of the population in developed countries are involved in primary food production. Agriculture is now a marginal industry.

[@yggdrasil9039]

2C+ above baseline would mean America's food sources in the mid-West would be unusable. The US would have to import all its food. That's not such a great bargaining position to be in.

[@johnburt7935]

Especially since Reagan had already shipped our jobs to China.

[@bovellois]

Food will have to be produced more and more in a controlled environment (greenhouses).

[@forgotaboutbre]

We should send this video to Congress

[@alachabre]

24:30 Ironic that they show VW assembly while talking about pollution control standards. :/

[@ZoepaHypaHypa]

it was 1991

[@aarondowd7346]

Car exhaust were much worse before modern catalytic converters

[@RobertoGonzalez-bg3zh]

ouch! What boggles my mind is that the dieselgate settlement started the very EV charging infrastructure that is bringing EV's to the mainstream (other than Tesla)

[@MultiRols]

Notice the statement that the solar car travelling at 70mph across Australia could never be the future.

[@gladonos3384]

This actually makes perfect sense. This is basically an add for renewable energy... Now, you can say it kind of backfired on them but they like everyone else is shortsighted of the future.

[@truthvigilante2180]

The problem is renewable energy isn’t yet capable of supporting civilization if it was then existing energy companies would’ve already done it

[@bovellois]

@@truthvigilante2180 indeed, renewable energy represents a tiny percentage of the energy mix, so even if it quadrupled, which would be very expensive, it would still make up a very small part. The promise of switching to a green economy is one that can't be filled without enormous sacrifices.

[@QuantCoder]

In retrospect, a little culturally biased, but still respectable. We now know that rapid improvement of energy technologies in developing countries can be had via inexpensive solar and wind.

[@Frank-rx9gq]

😂

[@jevandorp]

Why would Shell produce and promote this video if they were "lobbying against climate policy"?

[@bovellois]

So the public can't say we weren't warned.

[@SocaBoy-ms9cn]

A lot of folks are missing the point, while they are about making money they also understand the need to protect the planet and its people.

[@ryanlacroix6425]

Why would Shell commission the creating of this? Was there an executive team that ordered this who had a sense of scientific rigour and social responsibility which was then succeeded by another team who didn't? Maybe it was a rogue team within the corporation? I have a lot of trouble believing Shell would make this since it's such an enormous conflict of interest.

[@billydeeuk]

Ryan Lacroix Simples. They thought there was a quick buck to be made in green technologies. When it proved to be a long-term investment, they (or at leas their shareholders) lost interest.

[@brooksanderson2599]

What is now ExxonMobil did similar research in the 70s. It was only with the threat of government regulations that the oil companies went on the defensive. (old geologist)

[@bovellois]

They were protecting themselves from lawsuits decades down the road. Consumers can't claim they weren't informed.

[@bikesgoodgasbad]

Google the names James F. Black and John Sununu for your answer

[@motsetao]

Someone record this .. I can't. It may not be around long.

[@Alosipher]

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[@bovellois]

The incriminating documentary is still here 6 years later and 32 years after it release. People really responded to the call. Just based on how they drive only 10-15 km above speed limit, it's clear they got the message... But somehow all the blame should go to oil companies for the ever increasing use of fossile fuels.

[@Dracodin197]

♪It's the end of the world as we know it yes It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine♪

[@gladonos3384]

It isn't the end of the world at all. Life is just gonna suck.

[@theotherdayvids]

@@gladonos3384so you agree that it's the end of the world *as we know it*

[@gladonos3384]

​@@theotherdayvids People almost have an eerie excitement over it as if it will be something like in a roland emmerich movie that is the focal point when in reality it will simply be a background issue partially responsible for most of the days issues. It is best to define "as we know it." This isn't something that is just gonna happen, it is something that will subtlety change over the next 100 years and i do think we will do something about it, just not until Indian immigrants are pouring into China and Europe. But yea, if by "as we know it" you mean in the same vein as the period between 1900 and 2000 sure. Maybe more maybe not.

[@bovellois]

@@gladonos3384 for sure, the monarchs of two centuries ago would have done anything to try the modern lifestyle of the average citizen of any developed country. The wise ones would have gone back to their original lifestyle.

[@55wolves]

'Who chopped down the cherry tree,' 'why father I cannot tell a lie, it was I.'

[@jonbrown913]

Although it starts off well explaining the effects of manmade climate change, Shell can't help making the claim, efficiency of it's main products would be enough to mitigate AGW. Bit down on wind for instance.

[@darkhelmet12e47]

Remember, the technology has come a long way. Renewables were much less effective when this was made.

[@poppistarr9924]

Was this before the big spill in the gulf or after?

[@mischatech]

In a nutSHELL: Oil company conducts profound climate studies and ignores them. Fascinating!

[@bovellois]

Correction: consumers ignored them. Shell was just meeting demand. Humans knew about the existence of very fuel efficient cars, like the 28 hp Citroen. Today, even a motorbike used strictly for pleasure makes twice that power. Is that Shell's fault if American households keep a boat and a seadoo and a skidoo. a leafblower, a lawnmower, a snowblower, a high pressure washer, a quad, a hedge trimmer?

[@amaramichaels2064]

Sat here tonight, over 25 years on, it is painfully clear that the strategists who created our near term extinction, still expect the same tactics/pretend to produce a different outcome, and have totally missed the point. Who told them they could eat the cake and still have it ? ? ? ? ? Do they think they are like Jesus with his fish lol. ????? Then again, what do I know. lol

[@bovellois]

Jesus said "You cannot serve both God and money". Smart alecs figured they would serve both while pretending to heed the warning.

[@teletranoats7491]

so they knew it afterall

[@pussiboos21t]

They knew way before this

[@bovellois]

Consumers sure did know.

[@danosdotnl]

@18:44 where is that place?

[@joyo4435]

drax power station uk

[@danosdotnl]

@@joyo4435 thx. intense!

[@janjaapklomp1364]

Nigeria....?????

[@ollieone051]

We grow and water food to grow and water our food. As the population rises, deforestation for raising cattle will be the death of us.

[@julliannalatrach3400]

Let go of the cattle go vegan

[@cs292]

Completely ignored to frack.

[@brooklyn9398]

More water than land🤔🧐

[@vincent4189]

Shell Oil Company made Climate of Concern in 1991 as a warning against the dangers of climate change; then they ignored it. And what did 'we' do.. ?

[@bovellois]

How about consumers? Are they exempt from thinking on their two feet? Oh yes, it would be very hard for Westerners to adopt the lifestyle of the average people in Peru.

[@vincent4189]

@@bovellois apparently you didn't read my whole comment...😁

[@bovellois]

@@vincent4189 it looks like we’re in agreement.

[@chrisrogers3436]

I'm going to stop filling up at Shell stations. I don't want them to feel guilty about destroying the planet. I'll be filling up my three SUVs at Exxon stations now. I'm sure Shell will be relieved.

[@bovellois]

You're the one filling up the three SUVs, not them.

[@aljenparker]

A brilliantly cool-headed explanation of the causes of global warming, and an invitation to take some sensible steps. In the 30 years since Shell produced this remarkable film, solar electricity has advanced so much. Hydrogen can be extracted from water by electrolysis whenever the sun shines. Non-polluting hydrogen and ammonia will be the fuels to eventually replace oil and natural gas.

[@Frank-rx9gq]

No. They won't make it sustainable.

[@bovellois]

They won't make even a small dent, but the companies promoting such ideas will rake up huge public subsidies.

[@wuuht]

Why did shell make this?

[@mounirsomai7511]

It's the Dutch mindset to figure everything out. Even if its against your own company.

[@BiddieTube]

I can not imagine why one of the largest offenders in the time would put out a video like this. It does not really put down oil though and that may be a clue. Another clue, "Carbon Tax" is brought up. This video is likely one of the first conditioning pieces to program us for the future, and a major part of the future, penalize the citizens with carbon tax for the crimes committed by big oil. Interesting video, glad you posted.

[@bovellois]

Consumers of oil aren't the largest beneficiaries of the oil revolution? Tell us more.

[@0007riri]

im watching this in 2019....this is from 1991... they knew... they knew! but nobody listened... but they guessed the future! (or acctually “looked into future”) ooOooOOOoOoOooh jeeezzz we were stupid and didnt listen...🤦🏼‍♀️

[@RobertoGonzalez-bg3zh]

I listened. But then again, I was studying Environmental Chemistry in the 90's, and the data was pretty solid (if you were willing to look at it)

[@bovellois]

Nobody listened. Too much wax in consumers ears. Or blindness from watching too much television?

[@micheleklemetson3591]

This movie was a waste of film played in the schools for our students. It talks about innumerable problems and we can fix it with the change of a light bulb a new computer chip ect. Where in big trouble if this is there answer!!!!!!

[@bovellois]

The fix was to get off the fossil fuel addiction.

[@dumpmuch]

Shell is gwn op floes

[@ranger14809]

that this should occasion "partisan" fighting is exactly what the olly garks want namely for you to be dee stracted, its probably too late anyway so its in gods, mother nature''s hands

[@ianritchie]

revocandi terrae

[@mathiasdark1654]

Ah good ole Shell Oil...the anti-white radical P.C. destructive company that makes you think they are "diverse and against ALL forms of bigotry and hate"

[@HenrikE81]

Stop blaiming the oil companies, you are using their service, so it is so dishonest to attack them as the bad guy.

[@BinaryTechnique]

lol how much did shell pay you to post this???

[@desireedoubleyou]

Binary-Technique why would shell pay him to upload this when this goes against everything that they now stand for......

[@BinaryTechnique]

Desiree D sorry I'm just high as hell

[@dickhamilton3517]

they made the film in 1990 and later management wanted to bury it, and make sure you would never see it. That's why you didn't see it until now. They didn't pay anybody to post it. The opposite.

[@ThomasJScharmann]

What did "they" know and when did "they" know it? The smoking gun me thinks.

[@ShoutsWillEcho1]

I really have no interest in wasting 28 minutes on this video; could someone summarize what it's about?

[@RobertoGonzalez-bg3zh]

Oil = Climate Change. Plot spoiler: No enough people listened.

[@miriamkronenberg8950]

SHAME ON SHELL @SHELL

[@ikecostner1]

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