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> Thanks politicians! Strange that you would indict the State for failing to legislate Industry, as though the latter had no agency and were therefore uniquely
by rexpop 7y ago
> Thanks politicians!
Strange that you would indict the State for failing to legislate Industry, as though the latter had no agency and were therefore uniquely blameless.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoStates can make regulations, introduce carbon taxes, ban unsafe or unsustainable activity. When was the first international industry emissions reduction summit? How are they doing in comparison to the politicians? Exxon, Shell and BP knew all about the harm they did in the mid 20th century. So they buried it, briefed against it, greenwash us with irrelevant and insignificant adverts. I indict the states, particularly the developed states, for not bringing forth regulation requiring environmental consideration, emissions reduction, sustainability with penalties encompassing delisting, huge fines and exec imprisonment. Companies are quite happy to drive everyone off a cliff for a little more gold. We've known that since the first days of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
- rexpop 7y ago> Companies are quite happy to drive everyone off a cliff for a little more gold. Yet the denizens of this forum enthusiastically turn the crank while bemoaning the State's inability to stop us.