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Seems sort of pointless when corporations that know they are destroying the ecosystem which makes human life possible are among the most well-funded organizatio
by joejohnson 6y ago
Seems sort of pointless when corporations that know they are destroying the ecosystem which makes human life possible are among the most well-funded organizations in the world. And these corporations set the global rules on everything from taxation to carbon emissions.
It is not possible solve climate change with market forces (i.e. price the negative externalities into products like oil and gas through taxes) and neoliberalism ignores the very corruption that is inherent to a capitalist system where more money buys more influence over policy.
- amelius 6y ago> It is not possible solve climate change with market forces (i.e. price the negative externalities into products like oil and gas through taxes) Why not?
- justnotworthit 6y agoTo some, government corrupted by big business == capitalism == free market == need for large, powerful, uncorruptible government
- joejohnson 6y agoBecause those that would be regulated and forced to pay for these negative externalities make the rules. Oil and gas companies simply pay off the regulators and it costs them orders of magnitude less than the actual damage they cause to the world.