"It is hard to say openly that you don’t care about the long-term future of the planet because you won’t be alive to see it, or because your short-term profits are more important. So respectable-sounding arguments about the affordability of climate policies are made instead.
But the pushback against these policies should be seen for what it is: a highly political attempt to spare the rich and other heavy carbon emitters from making sacrifices."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/super-rich-pollution-earth-climate-crisis
Andrew Gallagher /
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2023-08-11 08:49:03
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