fossil capitalists were ahead of the academics in the 1970s. Working for Exxon, the chemist Stanley Whittington developed the original lithium-ion battery in 1973. In 1979, Exxon prototyped the first low-emissions electric-hybrid car. This at a time when their terrifyingly accurate internal scientific forecasting of our present climate crisis was yet to be publicly refuted in the permanent, saturation level corporate communications campaign advancing the ‘the Exxon position’, which since 1988
