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2026-04-09 15:53 UTC
@FerRacimo "violations." When pressed for answers, they seemed to assert it was not their place to comment on the company's position on climate change.
It was an exhausting quest. And Kip struggled with confronting his employers, who were supporting the fossil machine on a daily basis:
We're used to the bad guys being these faceless corporations. The heart of my difficulties was interacting with the human beings behind them, those in charge of protecting revenue at the cost of everything else.
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@ml@ecoevo.social 2026-04-09 15:55
@FerRacimo "Throughout these interactions, it became very clear to me that there were no adults in the room. All of his inquiries culminated with Kip being fired from Elsevier. The company simply found it too inconvenient to have someone prying so relentlessly into its dealings with the fossil fuel industry. But he did not leave without a fight. Kip reached out to academics from Fossil Free Research, Scientist Rebellion, and Scientists for Extinction Rebellion-the groups that already had"