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tclambert

(11,077 posts)
7. Because the vested interests (oil, coal, natural gas) want to make a penny more of profit.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 07:26 PM
Feb 2013

If they have to choose between saving your life and making that penny of extra profit, well, I hope you have your will drawn up. If that penny of profit this quarter results in the collapse of human civilization 50 years from now, well, . . . IT'S PROFIT!

The only argument they will listen to is "You can make even more profit later." Yet, in a choice between profit now and 100 times the profits 50 years from now, they may well choose "profit now." The 60-year-olds in the corporate boardrooms don't look much beyond 5 years in their planning.

We aren't going to fix this, as the top graph makes depressingly clear phantom power Feb 2013 #1
Need to get the terms right jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #2
"we're projected to hit by 2050?" dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #3
Because the vested interests (oil, coal, natural gas) want to make a penny more of profit. tclambert Feb 2013 #7
Yep. nt Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #31
There's a few problems here, kpete. Big ones. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #4
YUP, its the end of the world folks and all ya have to do is not wake up ... MindMover Feb 2013 #5
Amen to that, MindMover! AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #10
K&R ! patrice Feb 2013 #27
One reason why is that climatologists rarely project outcomes beyond 2100. Bucky Feb 2013 #12
Good points here, Bucky. n/t AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #14
Very professionally done. Laelth Feb 2013 #21
Thanks for the support. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #23
A mea culpa is still needed if we want to make any progress. It's bad enough as is. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2013 #24
That, I can agree with. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #25
You don't know the variables, dude. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2013 #35
I've read into PLENTY of research on this, F.A. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #36
Another viewpont to weigh in... Fedaykin Feb 2013 #6
Hrm... neffernin Feb 2013 #11
That's an old Dan Quayle joke! Bucky Feb 2013 #13
Then I suppose I've become a republican neffernin Feb 2013 #15
Interesting video, IMHO. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #16
It won't mean the end of the human race. Bucky Feb 2013 #8
Here's another view from the right toby jo Feb 2013 #9
It's going to take a mea culpa from the Koch Bros and others to beging to slow things down. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2013 #17
K&R patrice Feb 2013 #28
Ugh. Science by blog. Upshot: let's all get hysterical! Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #18
K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #19
youtube: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip johnnyreb Feb 2013 #20
All according to God's plan ErikJ Feb 2013 #22
I have suspected that there was something like this chart out there somewhere, for a while now. patrice Feb 2013 #26
But virtually none of the rich execs that make their money by ignoring the problem will be alive. Kablooie Feb 2013 #29
some will survive in pockets MFM008 Feb 2013 #30
marking to read later! nt Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #32
Pardon my skepticism, but Blanks Feb 2013 #33
I didn't give us 50 years. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2013 #34
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