Bill McKibben quotes Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as saying things that McKibben wishes Tillerson had said

Bill McKibben: Even Industry-Funded Climate Change Deniers Can't Ignore Planet's Warming

BILL MCKIBBEN: Well, look, we’re really seeing this summer, around the world, despite what Dr. Muller was peddling a minute ago, what climate change looks like in its early stages. And it’s been a pretty scary summer, not just here in this country where we’re seeing epic heat and drought, but up on Greenland, maybe the most important place in the world where the science and the actualities of what’s going on are sort of clearer day by day by day. We’re seeing record melts, we’re seeing snow turning to water and soaking up more of the sun’s heat.
... In fact, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, two weeks ago, probably more importantly, said, Yes, forget all the things that my predecessors have said about how global warming was a hoax. Global warming is real, and we’re causing it. He then went on to say, but it’s an engineering problem with engineering solutions, and the example that he gave was, if we need to move our crop production areas, we will. By crop production areas, I think, he means what the rest of us call farms, and if you look at an atlas, there is really not a lot of room to move them. You can’t take an Iowa cornfield where we’re not going to grow any corn this year because of the heat and drought, and somehow transplant it up to the melting Arctic tundra because when you get up there, there is no soil. What needs to be adapted is not our crop production areas. What needs to be adapted are the business plans of the fossil fuel industry. They need to stop exploring for more hydrocarbons, they need to stop warping our democracy by buying off the House and the Senate

Flashback: Don't miss this transcript: Exxon CEO says a lot of detailed, sensible things about fossil fuels and the climate hoax; "You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels more available to a lot of the part of the world that doesn't have it"

[Tillerson] I think there are much more pressing priorities that we as a -- as a human being race and society need to deal with. There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity...You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels more available to a lot of the part of the world that doesn't have it, and do it in the most efficient ways, using the most efficient technologies we have today...