A Court Ruled Shell Is Liable for Its Contributions to Climate Change. What Happens Now? [rollingstone.com]

Thank you. The original version of my post was more (and maybe too) intense, especially considering its non-relevance to the usual subject matter of PACEs. 

All good points, Frank. Thanks for adding.

What happens now? Perhaps Shell quietly transfers assets, etcetera, and then declares bankruptcy. To do so may be perfectly acceptable to the Western corporate-rule way.

Meanwhile, it must be convenient for the fossil fuel industry to have such a large portion of global society too tired and worried about feeding, housing and even guarding their families against COVID-19 while on a substandard income to criticize it for the global environmental damage it causes, particularly when not immediately observable. (And who needs ‘carbon sinks’ when Earth’s natural environment can be used for our carbon dumps?!) Mass addiction to fossil-fuel-powered single occupant vehicles surely helps keep the average addict's mouth shut about the planet’s greatest and still very profitable polluter, lest they feel like and/or be publicly deemed hypocrites.

In Canada, not only do consecutive Conservative and (neo)Liberal federal governments heavily promote and subsidize our fossil fuel industry; our mainstream print news-media have also come on board.

Except for the Toronto Star, the conglomerate Postmedia owns all of Canada’s major print publications. It’s also on record as being formally allied with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of “energy” (i.e. fossil fuel), but also the most polluting of crude oils — bitumen. [Source: “Mair on Media’s ‘Unholiest of Alliances’ With Energy Industry”, Rafe Mair, Nov.14 2017, TheTyee.ca https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/11/14/mair-media-unholiest-alliances]  

Although the alliance is not news, I found it very little known among the people with whom I converse, including subscribers. While I find Postmedia’s Sun tabloid papers crystal clear with their pro-fossil-fuel (and other topic) biases, I uneasily find its broadsheet papers’ bias more subtle and much less transparent.

For me, most pressing is: should the promotion of massive fossil fuel extraction, even Canada’s own, be a partisan position for any newspaper giant to take, especially considering its immense role in global warming thus climate change? And, at least in this case, whatever happened to the journalistic role of ‘afflicting the comfortable’ (which went along with ‘comforting the afflicted’), especially one of such environmental monstrosity?