The 1987 treaty to reduce these chemicals, dubbed the Montreal Protocol, has widely been viewed as
a successful global response to an environmental problem.
After documenting the largely
successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business
response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»