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Nihil

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4. Whilst it's nice to pillory said CEOs/ministers (and they definitely deserve worse than that) ...
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 08:04 AM
Nov 2013

> The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies,
> which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions
> generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests.
> ...
> "But the decision makers, the CEOs, or the ministers of coal and oil if you narrow it down
> to just one person, they could all fit on a Greyhound bus or two."
>
> Half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past 25 years ...

... one can't help thinking that perhaps the ever-growing, ever-greedier infestation of
consumers *might* *just* have something to do with it too ...



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