Twitter Roasts Shell for “Gaslighting” Consumers With Emissions Poll
BY SOPHIE HIRSH
Sometimes, you just need to take a good, hard look at yourself in the mirror. We’re talking to you, Shell.
This week, oil and gas corporation, Shell, took a break from polluting the planet to ask people on Twitter how they were willing to change their individual habits to help reduce emissions. As one might expect, Shell’s Twitter poll regarding emission reduction did not go over well.
On Monday, Nov. 2, Shell asked Twitter followers, “What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions?” in a poll. The four possible responses were as follows: Offset emissions, stop flying, buy electric vehicle, renewable energy. We’ll just kindly ignore the lack of context for the fourth option. (Really, do what with renewable energy? Demand that Shell’s entire portfolio be shifted to renewable energy? Now we’re talkin’).
Out of Shell’s 551,000 Twitter followers, only 199 people participated in the poll (for the record, the vague option of renewable energy was the winner).
But the poll’s measly results are not the most notable responses here — those came from environmentalists who quickly latched onto the tweet, accusing Shell of gaslighting consumers and unjustly putting the blame on them for emissions.
“I’m willing to hold you accountable for lying about climate change for 30 years when you secretly knew the entire time that fossil fuels emissions would destroy our planet,” responded Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, followed by an angel face emoji.
“The audacity of Shell asking YOU what YOU’RE willing to do to reduce emissions,” Ocasio-Cortez added, along with an eye roll emoji. “They’re showing you RIGHT HERE how the suggestion that indiv choices – not systems – are a main driver of climate change is a fossil fuel talking point. Yes, make good choices. Reign in FF [fossil fuel] corps.”
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
