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Fair question. If you're talking about actual laborers, most of them aren't even citizens and this is not a priority for them. If you're talking about the cor

Fair question. If you're talking about actual laborers, most of them aren't even citizens and this is not a priority for them. If you're talking about the corporate boards who run the agriculture industry, this increases cost without increasing profit so this is not a priority for them. I just can't think of how the agriculture industry could possibly get behind this.

DoreenMichele 3y ago
As far as I know, they live on planet Earth along with the rest of us schmucks and if they burn the entire world to the ground for profit, fleeing to a compound in New Zealand won't actually save them -- unless "New Zealand" is really code for some off planet haven, which I very seriously doubt.
- asu_thomas 3y ago
  See: priority Something being a problem for someone doesn't mean it's a priority. Poor people will never prioritize global warming. They will always have more urgent priorities. This is one reason why environmentalism under capitalism is absolutely doomed.
  - DoreenMichele 3y ago
    Poor people will never prioritize global warming. That's extremely funny. I'm dirt poor and gave up my car well over a decade ago, in part because I couldn't afford it anymore and in part because I'm an environmental studies major who takes environmental issues seriously. I'm not rich enough to afford to smoke cocaine to fuel my delusions and then buy a compound in New Zealand and a personal jet for getting there if my greed helps rapidly burn the world down while I imagine there's someplace safe to go after all the billionaires have destroyed the world in search of their own selfish gratification. So I make a LOT of pro environmental choices. I got no place to go and no money with which to go there.
    - Xorakios 3y ago
      first world arrogance - global definition of extreme poverty is $1.90/day, around $700 per year, scratching the dirt for food and water rather than going to college and not having a car https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty
      - DoreenMichele 3y ago
        I was homeless for nearly six years and I still go hungry at times.
    - Gibbon1 3y ago
      > That's extremely funny. It's also funny because it assumes the global poor are too stupid to realize that global warming means they'll become victims of war, refugees, or starve (choose one or more).

DoreenMichele 3y ago

As far as I know, they live on planet Earth along with the rest of us schmucks and if they burn the entire world to the ground for profit, fleeing to a compound in New Zealand won't actually save them -- unless "New Zealand" is really code for some off planet haven, which I very seriously doubt.

asu_thomas 3y ago
See: priority Something being a problem for someone doesn't mean it's a priority. Poor people will never prioritize global warming. They will always have more urgent priorities. This is one reason why environmentalism under capitalism is absolutely doomed.
- DoreenMichele 3y ago
  Poor people will never prioritize global warming. That's extremely funny. I'm dirt poor and gave up my car well over a decade ago, in part because I couldn't afford it anymore and in part because I'm an environmental studies major who takes environmental issues seriously. I'm not rich enough to afford to smoke cocaine to fuel my delusions and then buy a compound in New Zealand and a personal jet for getting there if my greed helps rapidly burn the world down while I imagine there's someplace safe to go after all the billionaires have destroyed the world in search of their own selfish gratification. So I make a LOT of pro environmental choices. I got no place to go and no money with which to go there.
  - Xorakios 3y ago
    first world arrogance - global definition of extreme poverty is $1.90/day, around $700 per year, scratching the dirt for food and water rather than going to college and not having a car https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty https://www.worldbank.org/en/understanding-poverty
    - DoreenMichele 3y ago
      I was homeless for nearly six years and I still go hungry at times.
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    > That's extremely funny. It's also funny because it assumes the global poor are too stupid to realize that global warming means they'll become victims of war, refugees, or starve (choose one or more).