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Green Investing Is a Fraud
- guscost 6y agoSure, but then so is the whole “climate emergency” in the first place. Glad to see the Trotskyites and Stalinists start to turn on each other. If they’re fighting amongst themselves, they’ll never get around to enslaving the rest of us. Good riddance!
- joekunin 6y agoHow do you figure, about the climate emergency?
- guscost 6y agoYou exhale CO2. You exhale viruses. The campaign to remake society in response to these threats is, in its purest essence, a campaign to redefine the free human being as a toxic animal. If successful, it will then be used to justify slavery and murder.
- syberspace 6y agoSorry what? When has anyone ever said breathing is the cause for climate change? Or even talked about disallowing breathing?
- guscost 6y ago“In its purest essence”
- syberspace 6y agoAgain, you are saying that breathing causes climate change? In its purest essence?
- guscost 6y agoNo. I am saying it is not at all a coincidence that these are the biggest/baddest “existential threats” prompting political activism. The solution to both is to enslave you, ultimately. Not a coincidence!
- i_haz_rabies 6y agoWho exactly is orchestrating this massive, species-spanning conspiracy?
- sunopener 6y agoOppression/Critical consciousness... and it's not 'Who', but WHO. -- I'm just the messenger here, don't shoot!
- bioinformatics 6y agoCO2 is pollution. Do you like to pollute everywhere you go?
- fatsdomino001 6y agoIf you're defining CO2 as pollution... then you are in fact polluting everywhere you go, because you're breathing.
- tectonic 6y agoI’m trying to figure out if this is performance art.
- guscost 6y agoIt is information warfare, but real talk, what’s the difference?
- oblio 6y ago> climate emergency 1. What do you think about the Great Garbage Patch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch ? 2. What do you think about micro-plastics? 3. What's your opinion about smog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_New_York_City_smog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_New_York_City_smog ? 3. Do you think modern industrial societies are not capable of outputting enough greenhouse gases to alter the climate?
- samizdis 6y ago> Glad to see the Trotskyites and Stalinists start to turn on each other. Actually, that has been a thing for ages - even during Trotsky's lifetime he wrote scathingly about Stalin and his policies/politics. (Edit to add this parenthetical comment: Oh, and Stalin had him assassinated in exile.) The piece linked [1] offers some insight into this, and it also shows wider splits, fragmentation and arguments; it is written from a socialist perspective. It's an engaging read. For drier considerations of Stalinism and Trotskyism, I'd just start with the Wikipedia entries for each - see [2], [3] - and for light relief afterwards, maybe watch the Python film Life of Brian, which actually captures rather well the concept of "splitters" and factions. [1] https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1973/1970s/no-830-october-1973/trotskyism-stalinism-whats-difference/ https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1973/... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
- guscost 6y agoYep, it is just a figure of speech here.
- oblio 6y agoHe's probably right. However there are a ton of people who are perfectly willing to burn down the world only to be buried with their gold. We do need green legislation with teeth: completely banning single use plastics, fully standardizing plastic packaging and making it super expensive via taxes (but reimbursing returns!), decommissioning all coal power plants in at most 1 decade, banning sales of ICE cars in at most 15 years, etc.
- i_haz_rabies 6y agoMy wife works for a manufacturing industry association and is regularly in meetings where owners and executives rant and rave about single use plastic bans like it is the worst thing to happen to them since the 5 day work week. It's incredibly demoralizing. We're not going to solve enough of these problems for it to matter.
- xyzzy21 6y agoESG in general is a fraud!
- m0llusk 6y agoInvesting in solar power instead of coal is both helpful and in line with recent trends.