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hatrack

(59,592 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 09:17 PM Dec 2019

BP's Retiring CEO "Hates" To See Kids' Friends Taking Antidepressants From Fear Of Of Future Climate

Did Bob have a sad? How . . . sad.

The outgoing boss of BP has revealed some of his daughter's friends in California are on antidepressants because of their worries over climate change.

Bob Dudley, who is to step down as chief executive in February, admitted he hated seeing 'young people so unhappy, so anxious' about the impact of global warming from increasing carbon emissions.

BP produces the equivalent of 3.7 million barrels of oil a day, and is directly and indirectly responsible for up to 491 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year, The Times reports.

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Mr Dudley added that he hated seeing young people so anxious, and that his daughter told him people around her are on antidepressants. Despite investing green energies, such as biofuels and solar power, BP has been criticised for putting only 3 percent of its annual spending budget into renewables.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7834937/BP-boss-reveals-daughters-friends-California-taking-antidepressants.html

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BP's Retiring CEO "Hates" To See Kids' Friends Taking Antidepressants From Fear Of Of Future Climate (Original Post) hatrack Dec 2019 OP
The reason he is sad is he knows his business is going to kill hundreds of millions of us and soon. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2019 #1
How do we know that he feels bad about how climate change defacto7 Dec 2019 #2
Nothing, hence my cynicism hatrack Dec 2019 #3
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Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. The reason he is sad is he knows his business is going to kill hundreds of millions of us and soon.
Mon Dec 30, 2019, 09:21 PM
Dec 2019

Ultimately, eventually it will kill much more than that.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
2. How do we know that he feels bad about how climate change
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 01:33 AM
Dec 2019

is affecting those friends and kids? Maybe he's upset that these kids are depressed for no reason. Maybe he thinks they have nothing to feel bad about and they are just overreacting. What's to trust about this guy?

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