From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@icloud.

com
Subject: 14c Conclusion: Best if refineries schedule their own closures, otherwise they will close by lottery
Date: April 21, 2017 at 1:20 PM
To: Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com, William (Bill) M. Colton William.M.Colton@ExxonMobil.com,
Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com, Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com

Dear Darren, Bill Suzanne and Max

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There is nothing much left for me to say, but hopefully the poetry of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner will
open your hearts to act responsibly by beginning to reduce the production and combustion
of hydrocarbons immediately. We have run out of time waiting for you to cease and desist,
to turn from the poisoned petroleum paradigm to carbon-free energy technology.

Bit.ly/Kathy_The_Butterfly_Thief
Bit.ly/Dear_Matafele_Peinem
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Sincerely yours,
Doug Grandt
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Published on Apr 20, 2017
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UN climate change poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner lives in the Marshall Islands and became
known worldwide following her inspirational performance at the UN climate summit in
2014.
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As part of Good Energy's appearance at Hay Festival 2016, we asked Kathy to help us
by writing a new poem to show how the arts can tackle climate change.
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'The Butterfly Thief' was inspired by our supporters and visitors to the Hay Festival who
were asked to share what was most precious in their world which they felt was at risk
from climate change.
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www.goodenergy.co.uk/blog/2017/04/19/using-your-words-to-fight-climate-change/

The Butterfly Thief

by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

In middle school I was a butterfly thief.

I stole caterpillars, rolled into cocoons from the bushes outside my classroom.
I nestled them into leaves on top of my desk across from my bunkbed and
a few weeks later my cousin and I woke to a morning light of trembling butterflies.
I read recently that 40% of pollinator species, this includes butterflies and bees, are
facing extinction.
One of the leading causes?
Climate change.
Warmer winters force plants to shift their schedules.
So that when a bee comes out of hibernation the flower it normally feeds on has already
bloomed and died.
As a result populations of the monarch butterfly and the rusty patch bumblebee has
declined by as much as 80%.
I came across a cartoon of a bumble bee.
Cute, tubby and smiling with a little cartoon bubble above its head that read:
If we die, we're taking you with us.
Might as well put a Marshallese face over that bumble bee,
Because if our islands, the Marshall Islands, drowns out due to the rising sea level
who do you think will be next?
Im taking you with me.
Another contributing factor to the decline of bees and butterflies are pesticides.
For bees the pesticides cloud their vision so that they lose their way and die before they
reach their home.
How many of us will die before we get to go home?
Will take a boat to islands that were once whole now reduced to sand and stone?
Some stories say our ancestors came from volcano stone, a basalt rock goddess tooted
in reef.
Today I keep a basalt rock on my bookshelf.
What tokens of our land shall we, will we store in ourselves inside our honeycomb of
chest bones the buzzing of a shore long gone.
I'm taking you with me.
In this past week my newsfeed erupted with the announcement of Rex Tillerson,
ExxonMobils CEO names Secretary of State
By US President Donald Trump.
ExxonMobil knew of climate change since 1981
But continued to fund climate deniers for the next 27 years.
So whose colony is it collapsing today?
Is it really just the bees? Or is also the human race funding our own world to be washed
into the sea?
Trust Im taking you with me.
On a visit to Kalalan Island a man takes my hand and he swears he was waiting for me.
He points to another island just a few feet called Ellekan.
He says 10 years ago it was lush. Full of coconut and pandanus trees. Now reduced to
sand and stone.
He says what's dead is dead.
You can't save this one but you gotta save the others.
The Prime Minister of Tuvalu was quoted as saying if we save Tuvalu, we save the
world.
But what if we dont save Tuvalu?
What if bees and butterflies become extinct? What if our islands dont survive?
Just who do you think will be next?
I'm taking you with me.
I'm taking you with me.
I'm taking you with me.