Does Big Oil Have To Be Evil To Survive?
It’s a tough business, and someone has to do it. Don’t they?
It’s one thing to pledge to do no evil if your business is an Internet search engine born on the pristine Stanford campus, or selling organic tea to Angelenos. It’s another if your business model is predicated on drilling into the earth to extract fossil fuels needed to keep humanity on the move, and if the drilling has to be done in some of the most pristine ecosystems on the planet, or in some of its most corrupt political jurisdictions. The oil business is messy, dangerous and brawny, requiring massive …
