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The end users have been lied to for half a century as the fossil fuel companies spent billions on PR campaigns, buying politicians, setting up think tanks and f
by acdha 2y ago
The end users have been lied to for half a century as the fossil fuel companies spent billions on PR campaigns, buying politicians, setting up think tanks and fake research groups, etc. claiming that something their own scientists were confident was happening was not happening.
Imagine the alternative where they’d gone to Nixon with their research and worked with governments to gracefully transition, support rather than oppose efficiency improvements, etc. The difference in deaths will be measured in millions, and the cost to the global economy would have been trillions of dollars less.
- ranyume 2y agoFundamentally speaking, government decisions are based on the individual egocentric needs of each member, not the needs of the population at large. This is why you can't trust governments to do the good thing: to make sure they do good you must coerce them as you would a private company.
- acdha 2y agoI’m not sure what connection that has to the topic - it sound tautological to say that good oversight will lead to better outcomes than poor oversight.
- ranyume 2y agoI'm saying that "good oversight" is fundamentally impossible, at least in a humanistic sense. Because individual people have individual ideas about what "good oversight" is. This includes government officials. Your views will certainly collide with a politician's views on what's "good oversight".