‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It’s Been for Big Oil

Climate activists protest outside the New York State Supreme Court building during the Exxon trial on October 22, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Brett Wilkins – 9 July 2024

“Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our backs with a little bullsh*t about your responsibilities to the planet?”

A new parody ExxonMobil advertisement released Tuesday by a group founded by Adam McKay—the Academy Award-winning writer and director of the blockbuster doomsday climate comedy Don’t Look Up—mocks humanity for letting Big Oil get away with causing one of the biggest existential threats of all time…

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