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Ecocide on the Docket

A UK group aims to label the burning of fossil fuels as equivalent to genocide, branding oil CEOs as war criminals.

ByKeith Kloor

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So the idea here is to make the burning of fossil fuels equivalent to genocide, which means the CEO's of oil & gas companies would be the equivalent to war criminals. Some UK group I never heard of is behind this. They will succeed in generating headlines. And bringing scorn to their cause.

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