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> One thing I don't understand is why political leaders aren't all over this 1. Political leaders in many countries (eg. Australia) have been deeply corrupted
by crispinb 7y ago
> One thing I don't understand is why political leaders aren't all over this
1. Political leaders in many countries (eg. Australia) have been deeply corrupted by the fossil fuel industry. And they're mostly legally immune because they essentially allow that industry to write the laws (including those permitting them to take up fossil fuel company sinecures when they quit politics).
2. Even when you have less-corruptible or more courageous political leaders, they have to try to convince populations which have been subject to relentless corporate propaganda (eg. from Exxon-funded sources as you suggest) for 4 decades. Propaganda has its limits, but it does work.
- bamboozled 7y agoAt some point it might even need to become a national security / defence force issue. I mean, what was the point of all the wars, death and destruction if the military just allow themselves to suffocate? That would seem like a strange end.
- crispinb 7y agoWell this is an astonishingly clear example of corruption of our political system by the fossil fuel industry. Even in nations where militaries pretty much get what they ask for, almost regardless of budget (eg. the US & Australia), they are waved off by governments when they put climate collapse forward as a major security issue (which they often do).