Updates on the Exxon Climate Change Cover-up

Yesterday California Attorney General, Kamala Harris, launched a criminal investigation against ExxonMobil following suit of New York's investigation launched in November 2015 after accusation that scientists employed by the oil company have known about the effects of climate change as early as the 1970s. Rather than release the reports, Exxon has lied to the public and poured millions into climate change denial propaganda. While I imagine most of the class is familiar with this budding media scandal, Democracy Now released a comprehensive overview of the story on December 31st, 2015 to bemoan the troubling news the 2015 was the warmest year on record. It can be viewed here: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/31/exxons_climate_cover_up_just_got

As I consider these updates in the context of our project of affectively considering what it means to be human participants in the anthropocene -- how we might 'become geological' to grapple with our participation, or at least our complicity, in our species' violent attacks on the environment -- I'm interested in this course of action, that is, the criminalization of climate change cover-up. How might this very human system of legality be used geologically? Can it at all?