Head Of BP Wants You To Know That It Doesn't Help "To Demonize Companies Or Groups"

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BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley urged climate activists not to “demonize” companies, following several weeks of protests designed to highlight how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. The energy giant has been targeted by climate activist groups on numerous occasions in recent months, with demonstrators increasingly angry about the lack of progress toward a lower carbon future.

“I don’t think it helps anything to demonize companies or groups. It gets society polarized and it is really hard to move through big complex problems when you set that up,” BP CEO Bob Dudley told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday.

Dudley said he hoped BP would continue to have meaningful dialogue with climate protesters moving forward, before pointing out that “London seems to be the world center of this strong debate today.”

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North of 95% of BP’s capital expenditure is on fossil fuels. If Bob Dudley had been spending as much of their shareholders’ money looking for a solution to the climate emergency, we’d be much closer to solving the problem,” Rosie Rogers, who runs the climate emergency campaign at Greenpeace U.K., told CNBC via email on Tuesday. “The science is crystal clear and leaves oil giants no wiggle room. Either they ditch fossil fuels, or we’ll face the full impact of a climate disaster,” Rogers said.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/30/climate-change-bp-says-activists-should-avoid-polarizing-society.html

[CentralMass]

1. This coming from the head of the company responsible for the largest oil spill in the history of the

petroleum industry. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. +1000!

They're lucky to still be in business!