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Common factor: Money to be made. Tobacco was the core of many states' economies, and still remains a massive industry which makes many people wealthy. Dealing
by QAPereo 9y ago
Common factor: Money to be made.
Tobacco was the core of many states' economies, and still remains a massive industry which makes many people wealthy.
Dealing with CO2 emissions would have required dealing with fossil fuel use... and that's tons of money and power in play there.
Sugar is, at the very least, another substance people crave, and has been making people rich for hundreds of years.
Delaying tactics are feasible when you have billions or trillions of dollars, control regulatory bodies, own politicians, scientists, and armies of lawyers. Delaying tactics on the orders of just a few decades means generations of VP's and C-levels getting unfathomably rich, as well as key shareholders. So... fuck the harm, delay, delay, delay.
The key is that you have to not give a shit about anyone other than yourself, or be genuinely deluded.
- trhway 9y agoanother major key factor is to maintain majority of [voting] population in the mental state impossible to penetrate by voice of reason. Such state is typically initiated by low quality education and maintained by local and global populist hysteria (that includes religion) based on anger, fear, envy, ...
- ythn 9y ago> The key is that you have to not give a shit about anyone other than yourself This is actually quite difficult. Despite its shortcomings (and perhaps ironically) religion can be effective at convincing people to put others first but I would say the default behavior in most people is "I only care about myself and family first". This default behavior is exacerbated when people follow the influence of greed, lust, etc.
- StillBored 9y agoIts a double edge sword. Most religions require suspension of critical reasoning as well in order to "take on faith" that which cannot be proven (or is outright wrong). The result is basically training people to be susceptible to propaganda.
- notfromhere 9y agoCorn is a core of a lot of farming areas in the U.S.; any attack on sugar is an attack on all the HFCS in everything