"Wrap yourself in the good phrases," said Mobil Vice President of Public Affairs Herbert Schmertz, "While sticking your opponents with the bad ones," as written by Rebecca Leber on vox.com.

ExxonMobil is the second largest gas and oil company in the world, only outranked by Saudi Aramco.  Their in house researchers made stunning discoveries that the production and combustion of fossils fuels are some of the largest contributors to dangerous and deadly changes Earth's climate.  Knowing this, they took immediate action to develop sophisticated ways to protect... their assets. 

Their first successful campaign was to get people to doubt the scientific facts about climate change - a bold faced lie considering the results of their own research.  The next one was very subtle.  It wasn't a lie at all.  It was misdirected truth presented as helpfulness implying that the individual is responsible for mitigating the harmful effects of climate change.  The focus on the consumer shifted responsibility off of the producer and made ExxonMobil look good and helpful, while they failed to do any action to curb their own contributions to climate change. 

The moral?  Words, promises, commitments, even their own 'science' and numbers cannot be trusted.  Protests must continue in the face of smoothe talk.  Nothing but doing away with fossil fuel energy and transitioning ExxonMobil to a carbon negative alternative energy entity will suffice.