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I can't conceive of any self-interested goal that's furthered by combating anthropogenic climate change, other than mitigating the effects of it actually happen
by mynameishere 17y ago
I can't conceive of any self-interested goal that's furthered by combating anthropogenic climate change, other than mitigating the effects of it actually happening.
Wow. Really? It's not that hard. When billions of dollars move around, there's always a destination. The beneficiaries are:
1. Unproductive countries that sell carbon credits to productive countries.
2. Financial firms that skim the transaction.
3. Politicians, who move one (well, many) steps closer to the longstanding goal of controlling the means of production and distribution.
- philwelch 17y agoWhere do you people get this idea that politicians secretly want to implement socialism ("controlling the means of production and distribution")? What evidence do you have for this? If financial firms and "unproductive countries" have so much of a comparable vested interest, why don't they do as the oil companies do and actually invest in political advocacy on "their side"?