Tyson Foods and the federal government refuse to show their math for a new sustainability label.

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    rich assholes fly around in their private jets fucking up the world

    Funny you mention this because the article specifically calls out people who think air travel is a more meaningful contributor to climate change than their own diet preferences.

    Also your entire take is based on the idea that these 1% corporations just like, burn fuel for funsies, instead of selling products to people which are then consumed.

    This take, for instance, is pants-on-head stupid:

    A household making $980,000 from [investment in] certain fossil fuel industries, for example, would be considered a super-emitter, according to the report.

    Might wanna rethink your entire worldview there bud.

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        1 year ago

        You’re sharing the same article I’m quoting from, which is making a stupid argument.

        If you want to fight climate change, you must understand that aggregate demand is the driver of climate change. Companies don’t get rich by fucking up the planet. Companies get rich by selling people shit. The shit they sell is fucking up the planet. Cut the demand and you lessen the fuckening.

        The way forward is by tackling aggregate demand, ideally through carbon taxes and investment/subsidies in green technologies.

        I am a literal climate lobbyist, and this is the angle actual people involved in fighting climate change work from.

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          I’m a climate scientist and a sociologist. If you think that we can get everyone on the same page about giving up their personal liberties and small pleasures (like eating meat) so the rich can continue to exploit the problem further for their own profit, we’ve already lost.

          The only path forward is to jail the corporate executives and rich assholes causing the lion’s share of the issue, but instead we get bootlickers arguing for an impossible goal of herding a bunch of cats to stop doing something they love to make up for problems mostly caused by the richest 10%.