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Will Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?

Today, lawsuits are positioning climate change as this generation's smoking: it pollutes the air, it’s caused by burning chemicals we buy from a handful of huge companies, and it’s dangerous to human health. Fossil fuel companies are being taken to court just like tobacco companies were, because of what they knew and when. Should they be forced to pay for damages from climate change?
Season 1 Episode 25 Length 05:58 Premiere: 11/08/18

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Season 1 We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century Episodes

The Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
S1 E36 Length 09:48 Premiere Date 11/07/19

The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
S1 E35 Length 12:27 Premiere Date 10/04/19

Our Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
S1 E34 Length 11:53 Premiere Date 08/27/19

Are You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
S1 E33 Length 09:45 Premiere Date 06/18/19

Feeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
S1 E32 Length 09:07 Premiere Date 06/06/19

Climate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
S1 E31 Length 10:18 Premiere Date 05/23/19

What’s The Best Car For The Climate?
S1 E30 Length 06:43 Premiere Date 02/22/19

How to Talk About Climate Change
S1 E29 Length 08:20 Premiere Date 01/31/19

How To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
S1 E28 Length 06:39 Premiere Date 01/10/19

How To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
S1 E26 Length 05:33 Premiere Date 11/29/18

Will Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
S1 E25 Length 05:58 Premiere Date 11/08/18

How One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
S1 E24 Length 07:48 Premiere Date 11/01/18

Can We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
S1 E23 Length 05:20 Premiere Date 10/25/18

Coral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don’t Have To.
S1 E22 Length 05:42 Premiere Date 10/18/18

How A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
S1 E21 Length 04:38 Premiere Date 10/04/18

Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
S1 E20 Length 04:59 Premiere Date 09/27/18

How Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
S1 E19 Length 03:24 Premiere Date 09/20/18

What Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
S1 E18 Length 05:06 Premiere Date 09/13/18

What if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
S1 E17 Length 05:14 Premiere Date 08/30/18

Could climate change make you allergic to meat?
S1 E16 Length 02:26 Premiere Date 08/23/18

What's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
S1 E15 Length 04:30 Premiere Date 08/21/18

Climate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
S1 E14 Length 04:33 Premiere Date 08/09/18

Why Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
S1 E13 Length 03:19 Premiere Date 07/26/18

Could Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
S1 E12 Length 03:59 Premiere Date 07/19/18

Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
S1 E11 Length 04:15 Premiere Date 07/12/18

Beef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
S1 E10 Length 04:16 Premiere Date 07/05/18

What If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
S1 E9 Length 05:26 Premiere Date 06/21/18

Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
S1 E8 Length 04:17 Premiere Date 06/14/18

Would Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
S1 E7 Length 05:25 Premiere Date 06/07/18

What the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
S1 E6 Length 04:29 Premiere Date 05/31/18

What Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
S1 E5 Length 04:12 Premiere Date 05/17/18

Why We Confuse Weather and Climate
S1 E4 Length 04:40 Premiere Date 05/10/18

Why Climate Change is Unjust
S1 E3 Length 04:53 Premiere Date 05/03/18

What Happened to Nuclear Power?
S1 E2 Length 04:17 Premiere Date 04/27/18

We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
S1 E1 Length 04:43 Premiere Date 04/19/18

Welcome to Hot Mess!
Preview Length 00:39 Premiere Date 04/02/18

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