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It is easy -- tax the pollutants and ban greenwashing marketing/lobbying. I am not the first to propose this: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p
by pms 7y ago
It is easy -- tax the pollutants and ban greenwashing marketing/lobbying. I am not the first to propose this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_most_important_stat_on_the_planet_alarm_as/eq6bvl0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_mo...
The real obstacle is the confusion in the public opinion spurred by big oil marketing and lobbying. It's really hard to find quality information online, but it exists since many years and it's pushed down on purpose by interest groups. Here is an example:
Exxon, a big oil corporation, had accurate predictive models of climate change, agreeing with scientific consensus, already in 1982 and confirmed "it will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050".
https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209 https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209
Shortly after Exxon began to deny global warming and started "greenwashing" marketing campaigns, which today show up directly in the news articles on global warming, e.g., in The New York Times:
https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570 https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570