Painted a quick one today after hearing BP are walking back their already water-thin commitments to renewable energy and investing billions more in getting as much oil and gas out of the ground as they can in order to set fire to your grandchildren.
In 2000 BP rebranded itself from British Petroleum to "Beyond Petroleum" in an early attempt at obvious greenwashing. It also popularised the concept of the Personal Carbon Footprint with a $250 million ad campaign in 2003, just before the Iraq war opened up billions of dollars worth of oil reserves for BP and other US/UK oil companies to loot.
These corporations only think in terms of quarterly profits when the damage they are doing will take hundreds of thousands of years for nature to undo, if ever. They are the symptom of an economic system that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, one that prioritises the greed of a few short-lived individuals over the abundant natural wealth of a planet that could be shared by all for as long as there was anyone here to share it.
A big part of the reason BP is doing this is its share price has dropped low enough that it may be a target for a buy-out as its share price makes the company almost worth less than it's assets. This is something we will see more of in years to come as the oil giants eat each other in order to be, as one internal Shell document described "the last man standing". These corporations know the end is nigh, whether that's for them or the planet, is up to us to decide.
Printable poster file for activists (not for resale):
