Yeah, I mostly agree with this. Only difference is a corporation isn't a feeling, knowing, conscious actor.

And it's very hard to repeatedly and publicly state things you know to be untrue.

Do you really believe they bought into climate change fear or did they adapt to it and still benefit.

Basically, as the article shows, I think the top brass in charge genuinely believed the nonsense the were pursuing. And when the incentives changed, out they went, so the corporation could, as you say, pursue what mattered in the new environment