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00:01None of it's true.
00:20Since the dawn of time, the climate has changed.
00:23It will keep on changing long after we're gone.
00:26Any little thing can make it happen.
00:27From sunspots to the wobbling of the earth,
00:30there have been ice ages, and ages with no ice at all.
00:33Things come and go.
00:35It's sheer arrogance to think that we control the fate of our planet.
00:39We'll never know if our industry contributed to the rising temperatures,
00:43but without fossil fuels, the human race would be languishing in poverty and, uh...
00:48Yep. Yep.
00:50Go on.
00:52Oh. Oh.
00:54You know what? Maybe she has some ideas.
00:57Me?
01:00I...
01:02It's your story. You know what it needs.
01:04Right. That's exactly right.
01:07Sorry. Thank you.
01:18What could you have done?
01:22I had a choice.
01:24Hello. I'm Michael Shannon,
01:27and I play a retired oil tycoon in a new film called The End.
01:33My character decides to write a book about his work in the fossil fuel industry,
01:38and he attempts to reshape the narrative
01:41about his responsibility in the Earth's collapse.
01:45He claims that the fossil fuel industry was not to blame for rising temperatures,
01:50then he claims he lobbied for climate action,
01:53listened to scientists,
01:56opposed the violation of human rights,
01:59and most importantly,
02:01did not have a choice.
02:04This is brilliant writing, but none of it is true.
02:10We are done with big oil's climate lies,
02:14and the citizens of this planet should not
02:17have to pay for your crimes.
02:21Dozens of communities across the United States,
02:24from California to Minnesota,
02:27Charleston, South Carolina, to Chicago, Illinois,
02:30a city very dear to my heart,
02:33have filed lawsuits against big oil companies
02:37to hold them accountable for their deception
02:40and make them pay for the enormous harm they have caused.
02:44The industry feels the walls closing in
02:48and is seeking to evade the trials,
02:53but we cannot let them escape accountability.
02:59This is the end of big oil's climate lies
03:03and the beginning of the truth.
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