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The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
- more_corn 4y ago
- spamizbad 4y ago
- Intermernet 4y agoJob creation numbers are mostly myths. There are many people doing bad jobs who, given the opportunity, would be doing other jobs. The fossil fuel industry has been subsidised in many countries for decades. That money could have trained people to have skills in areas with less negative environmental impact. That money could have been used to develop better technology. In Australia I recently did some contract work for a large government infrastructure project. They claimed that they had created so many hundreds of jobs. In reality, those jobs are temporary, and the people filling those jobs could easily be working on other projects.
- poorlyknit 4y agoI think the post you're replying to is being sarcastic. Nobody would take such a small amount of economic gain over the deaths of millions of people, right? ... right guys?
- Intermernet 4y agoSorry, I'm probably a bit jaded from living in Australia. The preceding government based its entire lack of climate policy on exactly that argument.
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- tchock23 4y ago
- throwaway81523 4y ago
- revscat 4y agoThis is what I keep coming back to. These people are directly responsible for what is increasingly looking like an event that would put Holocaust to shame. Our current trajectory is one of widespread famine and something that is approaching an extinction level event. What is justice for something like that? What would the fair punishment be for excellent employees? The people in TFA? And how can justice be done when the system responsible for it is entirely compromised?
- thelastgallon 4y ago
- tchock23 4y agoI worked in this industry for a bit. Awful people all around. This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
- HonestOp001 4y agoFine. Can we talk about what the ideal situation and transition process might be instead of pointing fingers at things like this? Nuclear included.
- sofixa 4y agoBoth can be done at the same time. Unless these sociopathic assholes are exposed and their tactics detailed and countered, nothing is stopping their successors from doing the same thing.