Billionaires are not leaders. They are takers. They must be forced via the law, otherwise they will do nothing besides further enrich themselves beyond their already obscene levels of wealth.
Billionaires somehow embody both the worst behaviors of toddlers and the worst behaviors of most adults, without having any of the redeeming qualities of either.
The closest anyone got to getting republicans to do anything about the climate was when AoC introduced the Green New Deal. They lost their minds for a minute at being called out.
If you care about climate change you don't go to the Republicans for action. This would be like being a vegan and going to the local butchers shop and expecting them to sign your petition to ban meat.
"Suicide cult members try to steer cult away from suicide."
I'd say something like "yeah let me know how that works out for you" but the climate they're destroying by supporting republicans is the same climate I live in, so I'll be burning right along with the little fuckers.
It literally doesn't matter. The financial cost is of no importance to sensible people - we know that the flooding of coastal cities, being unable to grow food, millions of climate refugees, etc. outweighs any short-term cost of slowing the climate crisis. On the other hand, the financial cost is the only thing of import to fossil fuel companies, because they are capitalists in a capitalist system - short-term profit is their priority every time.
The denier line has moved on from "it's not human caused" to "it's too late/expensive to do anything about it anyway", aiming for pessimism and doomerism to let them continue business as usual.
Having things like this we can counter with helps people argue and motivate to continue the fight.
Eh, they don't care precisely because they believe they have the privilege to shield themselves, and their descendants from environmental catastrophe. Luxurious fallout bulkers are built right now to do just that: protect themselves and their children from iminent threats, be it mob riots or tsunami or nuclear fallout. They don't give a shit about the rest of us, and why would they? What do they have to gain from caring about us, it's just not in their interest to do that when they could afford to survive through this and we don't. They've already won the logic of the free market in a bloodthirsty, capital-centric world then surely they earned their superiority, and their place as the true, deserving heirs of the Earth reborn. Looking through their eyes, it's just natural selection.
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