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The issue boils down to the human-induced climate crisis. Most climate scientists agree that rising levels of CO2, largely from burning fossil fuels, are driving climate change. This mounting crisis has widespread implications, from increasing extreme weather to impacting health, food security, and water supply across the globe. The fossil fuel companies that contribute disproportionately to these emissions bear a significant moral burden. While they may not have known the consequences initially, they actively suppressed information when the evidence became irrefutable some fifty years ago. Rather than acknowledging these harms, they embarked on a campaign to cultivate doubt about climate science—often deploying strategies akin to those used by the tobacco industry to undermine public health research.