If 97 out of 100 scientists agree that humans are causing catastrophic climate change, that's a consensus.
The difference between lying about the deadliness of tobacco and lying about the deadliness of fossil fuels is who gets harmed by those lies.
Tobacco is deadly - I've lost two grandparents to its ill effects -- but tobacco is most harmful to those who use it. The climate crisis is deadly to everyone, whether they are responsible for causing it or not. It will continue to hurt people for generations, even after humans stop polluting at such alarming levels as they do now.
The Exxon Mobil executives who've profited from fossil fuels did so while knowing that they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet and all of the species on it.
We're beyond the point where we tell ourselves that changing our light bulbs can help. The fix for the climate crisis must come from the highest levels. It requires large-scale systemic changes and not a few insufficient individual actions.
And it could start with consequences for the industry that caused the crisis on purpose.
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