UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms
UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms
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UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms
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The next climate summit will be in Baku, the capital city of the Petro-state of Azerbaijan.
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Hence the need to push attendees to take actions like this, instead of expecting them to just happen on their own.
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Yes, let’s ban ads. So they start advertising as clothing brands, mixtapes, and soft drinks.
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Restrictions on advertising were a key part of the steps to sharply reduce cigarette smoking
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We should ban funding for the UN instead, that organization produces nothing but hot air and corruption.
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Sure that’s good but also extremely insubstantial in a mildly frustrating way. At least start from urging for a ban on the oil products themselves rather than having already talked yourself down to what amounts to pissing on a forest fire.
A ban isn't going to be suddenly imposed; it's going to look more like "we stop subsidies for fossil fuels, and end advertising for them, and phase them out over 20 years"
So he's asking for the first steps. Which is a good move.
I’m saying these first steps are too little, too late, though. We should be past this point by now. We banned advertising tobacco over 50 years ago, and we don’t have another 50 years to work with on climate.
The stances we take and the actions we push for should be reflective of the urgency this situation merits.
Except it's not going to look like that, because oil tycoons own all the legislatures.