@aral it’s the human tenure trap. People in power only give a shit to the extent that it impacts their immediate power. They’ll be dead in a few years and they know it. They don’t care about what happens to the world when they’re gone.
ever heard the term vote w. your lifestyle I mean wallet? ~ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k-tfjbujFR8
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there are ways * . there are those that will live by the 'old world.. and . . yep.
@jimmygnarly “Vote with your wallet” sounds great until you realise that your measly wallet is statistically insignificant compared to the wallets of trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires.
@aral Outcompete the bastards with cheap renewable energy. When battery, wind and solar power become cheaper than the production costs of fossil fuels they will have an obsolete industry. And that maybe sooner than they think.
@gcblasing Oh don’t get me wrong, by “these fuckers” I mean all the so-called “leaders” at this shambolic event regardless of which invisible magic sky fairy they happen to believe in or not.
@aral They do so because they believe they'll outlive the destruction, democide and genocide they caused.
It's pretty hard to condemn guillotine jokes when those folks literally do everything to justify "non-consensual redistribution of wealth to the masses"...
@aral My theory is that they fully know that a good portion of humanity will be wiped out by the climate crisis but believe their wealth and power will protect them. I think they are dead wrong and that when humanity faces dire conditions, the mobs will wipe them out and steal all they own. Somehow I think we need to convince them of that.
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I guess that their reaction to that wouldn't be fighting climate change or paying more taxes, but building forts and private armies and trying to settle mars
@aral The fossil-fuel industry (and the worthless billionaires whose lives are defined by its profits) will prove to be a tenacious, relentless adversary.
@aral stop buying oil then? target oil consumers? demand higher prices?
Coal is overwhelmingly more important to eliminate. Green energy requires a transition and there are unanswered questions. Global South finds something it can capitalize on, funds a transition plan, and is doing leading work on alternatives, but gets hit on the nose when they push back. Easy targets, it would require work to find the real culprits.
@aral I cannot say that I am particularly shocked by their response. It would have been nice if they had actually been open to the idea that greed really doesn’t take precedence over existing.
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