Rebel or Die: Kill ExxonMobil
October 26, 2025
by William P. Meyers

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It is not just coral reefs, or exotic plants and animals that are dying. Already large numbers of people are dying from global warming. They mostly die from excessive heat and from famines, sometimes caused by drought, but they die too of flooding and fires. Science says this global warming is due to greenhouse gas emissions created by humans. The main source of these emissions is fossil fuels: coal, petroleum products, and natural gas. Resulting in CO2 and methane emissions, among others.

Most of the human race is going to die if we stay on this course. And most people are just allowing themselves to be marched in line to the global death chamber like Jews, Poles and others going to the Nazi death camps during World War II.

It is time to rebel or die. And so far it looks like the human race has chosen death. Young people, with few exceptions, have been unwilling to fight for their future.

There is a question of how to rebel, of how to fight. Even in the United States, historically the largest national emitter of greenhouse gasses and still one of the highest on a per person basis, there have been attempts to cut back on energy use. We switched to LED lightbulbs. Some switched to electric vehicles, or at least hybrid ones. Some regulations have improved the energy efficiency of buildings. But those actions have been nowhere near enough. We should fight for more environmental regulations. We should tax the hell out of gasoline. We should toss Trump and friends into the street and seize their assets as compensation for the harm they have done the planet. We should try to get the international community to set up a powerful Global Envirnomental Protection Agency.

But it is time, it is past time, to merely beg politicians or engage in peaceful protest.

It is to rebel. It is time to fight for the earth, its flora and fauna and ancient ecosystems.

It is hard to get people to take action because of the slowness of the oven we are now baking in. It is a Slow Motion Apocalypse, but it is an apocalypse just the same. Time has run out. It is time to fight. Hopefully even with a few fighters we can inspire a rebel army to save ourselves and our planet.

The first thing to do is pick a target. I say pick the biggest and most obvious one: ExxonMobile.

ExxonMobile is the largest petrochemical business in the United States. If explores for and extracts oil and gas. Its main product is gasoline, but it produces other fuels as well as chemicals and plastics.

ExxonMobile has a long history of corrupting American (and other nations') government. It has a history of denying its role, and fossil fuel's role, in global warming. Although, despite its size, it only produces about 3% of the world's oil, it is a good proxy for the rest of the oil industry. Destroy ExxonMobile and it will be a lot easier to bring the rest of the industry into line. Then we could shut most of it down, likely over a period of 5 to 10 years, while sustituting renewable energy resources.

ExxonMobile is located in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area. Its headquarters are at 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway, Spring, Texas 77389-1425 in Harris County. Phone 972-940-6000. You can get a great deal of information on the company from its SEC filings, including the 2025 annual report (10-K) for ExxonMobile. More general corporate information is on their web site: ExxonMobile

Here are the officers of ExxonMobile, who I judge to be guilty of Crimes Against the Earth, as well as responsible for global-warming related human deaths, which are Crimes Against Humanity:

Daren Woods, CEO and President

Neil A. Chapman, Senior Vice Presient

Kathryn A. Mikells, Chief Financial Officer

Jack P. Williams, Jr., Senior Vice President

Daniel Ammann, Vice President

James Chapman, Treasurer and Vice President

Len M. Fox, Controller and Vice President

Jon M. Gibbs, President for Global Projects

Karen T. McKee, Vice President

Darrin L. Talley, Vice President for Strategic Planning

Jeffry A. Taylor, Secretary, General Counsel, and Vice President

Then there are the stockholders. The major stockholders, the ones that have choice, should also be held accountable. Often the stockholder are other corporations and funds, so it is hard to tell if a person holding stock this way has decision making powers. That should be looked at in more detail. In many cases ordinary people with pensions or 401K plans may, ultimately, hold some XOM stock. Not much point to trying to hold the small fry accountable when they don't even understand what they own. Though they should demand their plan divest from all greenhouse gas generators.

Rebel or Die. Those are the choices. Most humans, in the United States and elsewhere, are marching into the ovens of the fossil fuel companies, putting up no resistance.

A possible plan, or beginnings of a plan, is to call for a physical takeover of Exxon's headquarters. That would require national mobilization. Though non-violent civil disobedience is recommended by me in most political situations (as is voting!), I think shutting down Exxon would require an armed multitude. Because Exxon is wealthy, powerful, and much more ruthless than the Nazis.

The Nazis put perhaps 6 million people in their ovens and death chambers. They killed well over 10 million with firing squads and in warfare.

ExxonMobile, Chevron, Aramco, Shell and all their petro industry gang plan to kill most of the 8 billion people on earth. And most species of plants and animals.

So rebel or die. Those are the only real choices.

Recommended reading: The Banality of Evil, Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt