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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
Posted on 3/25/24 at 8:54 am
Posted on 3/25/24 at 8:54 am
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As the climate crisis gets ever more severe, the fossil fuel industry is struggling to recruit new talent. And now a number of existing employees are deciding to leave their jobs, some quietly, some very publicly, because of concerns over climate change.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to a researcher about this phenomenon of “climate quitting”.
In a video posted on LinkedIn in 2022, Caroline Dennett, a senior safety consultant working at a major oil company, announced she was terminating her contract because of what she called the company’s “double-talk” on climate.
When Grace Augustine and her colleague Birth Soppe saw the video, which went viral, they decided to start looking for more people who had left their jobs because of concerns over climate change.
Augustine, an associate professor in business and society at the University of Bath in the UK, and Soppe, an associate professor of organisation studies, at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, have so far conducted interviews with 39 people from around the world in their ongoing research. Most, though not all, of their interviewees are young people who work in white collar jobs in the oil and gas sector.
One man they spoke to explained the feelings that led him to leave his job.
On a Friday afternoon travelling home, I would feel physically uncomfortable. And I was wondering: why am I feeling physically uncomfortable? I had a good week, I’ve done good work. And then you realise that, you may have done good work, but the goal that you’re working towards is evil in a way; does not align with your moral compass.
Many referred to having a sense of cognitive dissonance – the idea that your behaviour doesn’t match your belief system. And they couldn’t live it with any longer. Augustine explained:
They were increasingly feeling a sense of urgency around the climate crisis … something that they’d thought might be happening ten, 15, 20 years down the line, such as heat records being broken or climate related weather events. They felt an increasing sense that it couldn’t wait any longer for them to leave this industry.
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Oh well…guess that means the baws and bawettes who don’t mind working for Evil Fossil Fuels will just be able to command more dineros.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 8:56 am to ragincajun03
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As the climate crisis gets ever more severe,
More severely lied about is more like it. Biggest hoax in global history
Posted on 3/25/24 at 8:56 am to ragincajun03
They should cut off their electricity too.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 8:59 am to ragincajun03
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and her colleague Birth Soppe
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 9:01 am
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:00 am to ragincajun03
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As the climate crisis gets ever more severe, the fossil fuel industry is struggling to recruit new talent. And now a number of existing employees are deciding to leave their jobs, some quietly, some very publicly, because of concerns over climate change.
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have so far conducted interviews with 39 people from around the world
So basically no one is leaving their job over this.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:00 am to ragincajun03
Wish-casting again.
"Please quit your job, please....everyone's doing it, you see?"
"Please quit your job, please....everyone's doing it, you see?"
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:00 am to ragincajun03
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Caroline Dennett, a senior safety consultant working at a major oil company, announced she was terminating her contract because of what she called the company’s “double-talk” on climate.
her $2500 day rate position was filled within 10 minutes
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:02 am to Steadyhands
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So basically no one is leaving their job over this.
I've worked on the Environmental and Regulatory side of O&G for 20 years.
No one gives a shite about the "climate crisis". If anything, it's viewed as job security.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:04 am to ragincajun03
Family member used to work in Oil and Gas engineering and they are having a hard hard hard time getting very competent young people to take the jobs, even at very high wages. They just aren't going to school for it.
They have to keep hiring old semi-retired people and crazy wages.
They have to keep hiring old semi-retired people and crazy wages.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:10 am to ragincajun03
Aaaaaand that's how fake the media is..
People leaving their job over climate.
A whole 39 people worldwide??
Jesus, could they try harder to falsely influence a narrative.
Main stream media...
People leaving their job over climate.
A whole 39 people worldwide??
Jesus, could they try harder to falsely influence a narrative.
Main stream media...
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:11 am to ragincajun03
Is this really a thing? Climate change is a huge leftist hoax.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:14 am to Purple Spoon
Why don’t people like her pay a little money to the local dermatologist and get those big facial warts removed? fricking gross
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:15 am to Salmon
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So basically no one is leaving their job over this.
I've worked on the Environmental and Regulatory side of O&G for 20 years.
No one gives a shite about the "climate crisis". If anything, it's viewed as job security.
I am in the same field as you, been doing it about 10 years. Same thought where I am that it's not going anywhere. It will always be needed even if it eventually is reduced in some capacity.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:16 am to ragincajun03
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As the climate crisis gets ever more severe
this is my absolute favorite expression. The "climate crisis". The most absurd fear porn saying of this generation.
We have a crisis at the border. Argentina has an economic crisis. Ukraine has a security crisis. China will soon have a demographic crisis.
But an incrementally changing climate across the globe that is not even as radical as many of the other documented changes of the past 300,000 years (ice ages, reverse polarities, volcanic eruptions, etc) simply do not fit the definition of a crisis.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:16 am to ragincajun03
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As the climate crisis gets ever more severe
Stopped reading here
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:16 am to ragincajun03
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Augustine, an associate professor in business and society at the University of Bath in the UK, and Soppe, an associate professor of organisation studies
More bullshite leftist sociology activists masquerading as academics.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:20 am to ragincajun03
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Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
Fine by me.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 9:20 am to Steadyhands
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So basically no one is leaving their job over this.
Recruiting people in the SE and the Gulf Coast isn’t hard, but trying to recruit college kids in the Chicago, Los Angeles, and PNW areas to to staff up the refineries has been difficult.
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