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anarch

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11. gosh, are you saying capitalist interests KNEW they were destroying the planet, but did it anyway?
Wed May 15, 2019, 07:18 AM
May 2019

because profit is far more of a priority to them than leaving a habitable world for future generations?

Do you mean...(gulp)...science has been aware of the risks associated with increased atmospheric carbon for some time, and industry has just flat out ignored (or more accurately, suppressed) any warnings about how, you know, "hey guys, you should probably cut back some on all that fossil-fuel burning if you want your grandchildren to be able to survive on the planet"?? Why, that would imply that cynical, inhuman corporate entities are making decisions that ignore the welfare of humanity...

oh by the way, here's an article from 19-fucking-12 that talks about how increased CO2 content tends to increase the effect of atmospheric heat retention:



link to archived original newspaper--'Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette' (New Zealand), 14 August 1912

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5

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