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Rather, they’re not sorry they tried to scam you, they’re sorry it didn’t work.
Rather, they’re not sorry they tried to scam you, they’re sorry it didn’t work.
In other news, new evidence shows Hitler “wasn’t such a great guy” even as early as 1932.
I’m not a scientist, I don’t know one way or the other if there are “cleaner” fossil fuels. But I believe the Exxon CEO when he claims there are.
Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t apply to CEOs. It’s always 100% conscious malicious choices.
While it’s easy to believe Exxon would make up “we could have done it cleaner but it cost more than the market would bear” its much more in tune with big oil’s real strategy of “we absolutely knew about it and beyond doing nothing, we actively suppressed action about it and spent a lot of money ensuring no one else would too.”
To be clear: climate change requires individual responsibility. Keeping your kids off legitimate online pornography websites is too big for citizens to handle on their own and requires government intervention.
The real key is local bottling where local production isn’t possible.
Ship vats of Coca-Cola syrup to the 200 largest cities (more or less) in North America and create local bottle circulation.
Spice it up with local bottle designs or recycling marks. Now you’ve got novelty sales, collector sales, eco-conscious sales, ‘support local’ sales…
Carbon taxes need a caveat that prices cannot change due to the tax. Otherwise it’s just another way for big business to profit.
“We had to raise our prices because of the carbon tax!”
“But the tax is 8% and your prices have gone up 20%”
shrugs “Dunno. Carbon tax.”