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[BROKEN PROMISES] LEDGER
// Promise vs Reality

Documented Lies

Public commitments that were later broken, quietly abandoned, or contradicted on the record. Each entry pairs the promise — with its primary source — against the documented violations that followed.

// Aggregate public harm across 2 assessed promises
$5 billionestimated public cost
87M peopleaffected
1 documented promise
ExxonMobil Violated Catastrophic Primary evidence Climate
ExxonMobil: 'The science is uncertain' — while internal scientists confirmed warming
Said “Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.”
Promised 2000-01-01 00:00:00+00 Audience · General public 2 sourced violations Latest breach 2023-01-13 00:00:00+00
Source Inside Climate News investigation, 16 September 2015 ↗