This scientist just changed how we think about climate change with one GIF

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. No.

Republicans are at the root of the problem but, as you rightly say, not the only ones. Change the Republicans and the "corporatist Democrats" will have already changed by then.

But even more importantly, for winning the political debate, it is a big mistake to equate exploitation of the earth with unsustainable exploitation. It is a failure of imagination to not see sustainable exploitation.

All corporations and all people, by long chains of actions and effects, exploit the earth more or less directly. Good corporations and good people exploit it as sustainably as possible; more and more sustainably as knowledge and technology grow.

Rapacious corporations are evil. Sustainable corporations are good (this includes issues like living wages).