Producing oil doesn't cause climate change any more than manufacturing guns causes crime.

Even going so far to accept that burning oil might cause "climate change" (which I do not), it is the end user who burns it, not the producer. Just as it is up to the end user whether a firearm is used to protect and defend, hunt for food, or commit a crime.

In that sense, those who fly their private jets all over to complain about oil companies causing 'climate change' are far more culpable than those who merely produced the fuel they burned.

Higher wages are a threat to the whole service industry business model.  This was the folly of allowing well paying manufacturing and technology jobs to be offshored.