People Who Have Committed Futurocide

Climate change will kill at least 5,000,000 people by 2050. The following people are responsible for many of those deaths:

People Organization Cause
CEO: Amin H. Nasser
Board of Directors: Mohammed I. Al-Suwaiyel, Ibrahim A. Al-Assaf, Khalid A. Al-Falih, Khaled S. Al-Sultan, Andrew F.J. Gould, Majid Al-Moneef, Mark Moody-Stuart, Peter Woicke
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) TBD
CEO: Alexei Miller
Board of Directors: Viktor Zubkov, Andrey Akimov, Farit Gazizullin, Timur Kulibaev, Vitaly Markelov, Viktor Martynov, Vladimir Mau, Valery Musin, Alexander Novak, Mikhail Sereda
Gazprom OAO TBD
CEO: Mohsen Khojastemehr
Members of the Board: Javad Owji, Ahmad Mohammadi, Karim Zobeidi, Saeed Khoshrou, Mohammad Bilkar, Seyyed Saleh Hendi
National Iranian Oil Co TBD
CEO: Darren W. Woods
Board of Directors: Michael J. Angelakis, Susan Avery, Angela Braly, Ursula Burns, Gregory J. Goff, Kaisa H. Hietala, Joseph L. Hooley, Steven A. Kandarian, Alexander A. Karsner, Jeffrey W. Ubben
Exxon Mobil Corporation TBD
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What is Futurocide?

Futurocide is knowingly committing acts that cause deaths in the future, a speculative law the realization of which may only be a matter of time. As of 2023 there are legal actions concerning ecocide, constitutional rights to protect the environment for future generations, and seeking compensation for future damage to people, property, and natural resources.

By comparison, genocide occurred as early as 1209, and yet the term genocide was not coined until 1944, and didn't become an international law until 1951. Futurocide will also become a crime once the impact on humans is sufficiently horrifying.

The Proof

Who Has Already Died?

A study published in the journal Nature Medicine estimates that over 61,000 people have died from the heat in Europe in 2022. In 2021 in the United States alone, 1,600 people died from heat. One of those people was Sebastian Perez, who died in the Pacific Northwest in 2021, one of 108 people who died in a heat wave that World Weather Attribution determined was "virtually impossible without human-caused climate change."

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Photo courtesy of the Perez Family.

Deaths in the Future

The World Health Organization estimates that 250,000 people will die each year between 2030 and 2050. Regarding air temperature they report:

Health impacts of heat waves include exhaustion, cramps, syncope, strokes, kidney disorders, psychiatric illness, chronic pulmonary illness, diabetes, diarrhoea and cerebrovascular accidents. Heat waves are also related to vector-borne diseases, as well as diarrhoea induced by temperature increase.

On vector-borne diseases:

Climate change is expected to modify the geographical range of the habitat of animal vectors of diseases, especially in Asia, Africa and South America. For example, malaria is one of the most concerning climate-sensitive vector-borne diseases since a shift in the hospitable geographical range of the Anopheles mosquito could put more people at risk. This is also true for other illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes, such as yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya, and the Zika virus.

In sum:

It is expected that, as global warming continues, there will be an increase in the frequency and severity of heat waves. By 2100, extreme heat waves could kill as many people as all infectious diseases combined. World Health Organization (WHO): A framework for the quantification and economic valuation of health outcomes originating from health and non-health climate change mitigation and adaptation action