Climate campaigners have a name proposed for a huge iceberg researchers say is about to break off from an ice shelf in Antarctica: the #ExxonKnew Iceberg.
The calving, as the break-off is called, is happening on the Larsen C ice shelf in West Antarctica. According to the U.K.-based Project Midas, which is keeping track of the rift’s progress, it could be one of the largest icebergs on record.
According to 350.org, the soon-to-be Delaware-sized iceberg presents an excellent opportunity to remind the public of Exxon’s role in fueling climate change.
“With one of the world’s biggest ice shelves at a breaking point, this destruction should bear the name of its greatest perpetrator: Exxon,” said Aaron Packard, 350.org’s Climate Impact Coordinator. “People deserve to understand the devastation of Exxon’s decades of climate deception, and realize fossil fuel companies for the climate criminals they are.”
The group’s petition to the U.S. National Ice Center—the body that names icebergs—says the fossil fuel company “deceived the public, misled their shareholders, and robbed humanity of a generation’s worth of time to reverse climate change,” referring to the ExxonKnew scandal.
“We need to make sure their role in causing the climate crisis is not forgotten,” says the petition, which the group says has garnered over ten thousand signatures. 350.org also posted this video to accompany the petition:
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