To: CEO of ExxonMobil
Tell Exxon: Stop stalking Bill McKibben
Stop stalking environmental leader Bill McKibben and his family. Your behavior is disgraceful.
Why is this important?
Last Sunday, in an op-ed in the New York Times, environmental leader Bill McKibben shared the haunting experience of being hunted by the fossil fuel companies he's made himself an enemy of.
A group of fossil fuel giants, in their effort to discredit McKibben and the movement he is part of, have sent trackers to follow up around his everyday life—snapping photographs, documenting his every move, and invading his privacy.
Their goal is to embarrass him publicly—but also, likely, to send a warning to other activists what they can expect if they dare to stand up to the fossil fuel industry.
As McKibben noted in his article, it's not as harrowing as the activists who have been killed in other countries for defending the environment. But this behavior by the fossil fuel companies is above the pale.
The executives of these companies need to call off their attack dogs, respect the rights of a citizen to both have political beliefs and a private life, and stop using such tactics to intimidate and silence their critics.
A group of fossil fuel giants, in their effort to discredit McKibben and the movement he is part of, have sent trackers to follow up around his everyday life—snapping photographs, documenting his every move, and invading his privacy.
Their goal is to embarrass him publicly—but also, likely, to send a warning to other activists what they can expect if they dare to stand up to the fossil fuel industry.
As McKibben noted in his article, it's not as harrowing as the activists who have been killed in other countries for defending the environment. But this behavior by the fossil fuel companies is above the pale.
The executives of these companies need to call off their attack dogs, respect the rights of a citizen to both have political beliefs and a private life, and stop using such tactics to intimidate and silence their critics.