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The 1969 company report predicted our future CO2 - courts made it count
A 1969 company report warned of rising CO2; 900 citizens sued to force action-what would the court decide?
The 1969 company report predicted our future CO2 - courts made it count
In this episode, we follow how decades of private studies, internal briefings and shifting political targets intersected with a new legal strategy that treated climate inaction as a tort. We trace the path from a buried 1969 corporate study to the courtroom maneuvers that sought to turn buried knowledge into legally enforceable duties-so what did those records change about liability?
Person: Roger Cox
Date: 1969…
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