alienanimals @ alienanimals @lemmy.world

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I'm a climate scientist and a sociologist. If you think that we can get everyone on the same page about giving up their personal liberties and small pleasures (like eating meat) so the rich can continue to exploit the problem further for their own profit, we've already lost.

The only path forward is to jail the corporate executives and rich assholes causing the lion's share of the issue, but instead we get bootlickers arguing for an impossible goal of herding a bunch of cats to stop doing something they love to make up for problems mostly caused by the richest 10%.

America's richest 10% are responsible for 40% of climate change. You're butthurt that I'm using living modestly while rich assholes profit from making the climate problem exponentially worse. I would say don't bootlick for the rich, but I'm not sure you're intelligent enough to change your worldview "bud".

Be a good little communist and clean up after the rich capitalist's mistakes.

I never said that. Sorry about your room temperature IQ.

Here's the problem that schlubs like you don't understand: The rich people who profited from causing most of the problem aren't making any sacrifices and expect everyone else to do it for them.

I never said they were mutually exclusive. The problem is that the majority of people have to make sacrifices because some rich assholes caused the lion's share of the problem. The funny thing about being a rich asshole is that they'll get away scot-free while the rest of us have to pay for their greed.

I don't have a car, but yes I'm a little bit at fault. I never said I wasn't.

But only an idiot would think I'm just as bad as people who made millions of dollars making the climate problem substantially worse. I didn't get rich by fucking our planet. I'm just trying to get by unlike the executives exacerbating climate change so they can make a couple million more.

To say Exxon was just, "fulfilling demands" makes them seem like good people. They KNEW they were causing climate change 50 years ago. They suppressed the information. Many Americans are dependent on their oil. It's all part of the design of our roads, infrastructure, jobs, etc. These corporations only care about their revenue streams, not the streams of water and how clean they are. Hoping the majority of consumers band together to do the right thing simply will not work. The corporations and the executives need to be held accountable or we will continue to flounder on climate change.

I wasn't even alive in the 1970's when Exxon knew about climate change and lied about it to the entire world. Those rich fucks have been exploiting the climate for their personal gain for many decades before either of us were likely even born. I won't be giving up the few small liberties I have so that the rich can continue doing whatever they want.

And good luck getting every single consumer to agree with you. I suspect you're going to be waiting a long time for your plan to work.

Instead, we should be punishing the individuals responsible for 40% of the climate change problem. Not punishing the rest of the world who did not profit from exploiting the climate problem.

The 1% and the corporations are more at fault for climate change than individuals. I'm not going to stop eating beef while rich assholes fly around in their private jets fucking up the world just so I have to pay for their greed.

Maybe if you did something meaningful with your life, you could make it into the news and we could all talk shit about how you look.

The CCP thinks this makes America look bad? This makes America look BADASS!

Executives are constantly sucking up all the profits for themselves and putting more workload on everyone else. Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that corporate executives are robbing them blind.

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

Rotten Tomatoes will also stop all new reviews if a movie is bombing. They definitely manipulate their ratings.

Edit Two Rotten Tomatoes employees downvoted this comment.

There should be a website that collects all the false claims journalists publish and list it under their names/faces. Maybe if more of them were shamed for lying and poor journalism they would stop doing it.

The plutocracy impacts every candidate, not just the ones you don't like.

I sure wish journalism would "evolve" so that every article wasn't some brain dead take.

This isn't a broadband grant. It's free money for corporations that currently hold an oligopoly on the ISP industry.

Over the years there have been several instances where ISPs like Comcast, received substantial government funding to expand and improve their networks. However, the ISPs largely failed to follow through on the network improvements and instead just pocketed the money.