Have huge corporations even noticed there’s a climate crisis?

With General Motors unveiling huge new SUVs and oil firm Saudi Aramco newly crowned the world’s most valuable company, James Moore asks what happened to big business’s push to be green

General Motors: Climate crisis, what climate crisis? (Getty)

It’s as if the climate crisis didn’t exist. General Motors, the US car maker, has just unveiled its next generation of SUVs: the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Suburban.

They are huge. Bigger, heavier, with only a small improvement in miles per gallon.

Customer demand is what the company said was its motivation for producing the new truck-based monsters, which will hit America’s roads in the middle of next year.