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Doesn’t seem like an unreasonable position to take. If someone murders a bunch of people, then trains as a trauma surgeon likely capable of saving a bunch of li
by FooHentai 7y ago
Doesn’t seem like an unreasonable position to take. If someone murders a bunch of people, then trains as a trauma surgeon likely capable of saving a bunch of lives, the expectation is that we collectively shrug our shoulders and everything’s fine because it’s likely the final count will come out neutral?
Nah. We consider companies to be people in a legal sense and they should face justice in that same sense. Asset seizure, restorative justice, and incarceration all have suitable analogues that can be applied to these companies.
But back to the main point, that the two issues are often conflated by people? Also a reasonable position. Where has the profit been sought in extraction of non-renewables and release of CO2? Where should the capital for carbon re-capture and environmental restoration be drawn? The argument is that these two places are one and the same, and this idea has merit.
- dehrmann 7y agoThe trap is anthropomorphizing oil companies with some sort of intent beyond making money. It's entirely a supply-side issue of people wanting to buy oil, and as a society, we have to deal with the consequences. Blaming oil companies is a cop-out for failed public policy.