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Interesting. Why wouldn't there be an opposite corporate side that would make money off the stuff being removed. For example, there are a LOT of companies in th
by cy_hauser 7y ago
Interesting. Why wouldn't there be an opposite corporate side that would make money off the stuff being removed. For example, there are a LOT of companies in the U.S. making money from environmental and alternative energy that might benefit from information the corporate interests had removed.
Maybe that _does_ boil down to just the political parties in charge at the time. If so then does politics trump capitalism?
- jacquesm 7y agoThat's because resource extraction from the planet is - for now - still cheaper than doing it in a sustainable way. At some point that will flip but by then it may well be too late, the 'mines of tomorrow are the garbage dumps of today' was recognized long ago. Just think of all the copper in landfills.
- angry_octet 7y agoUS politics is capitalism by other means.