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In reply to the discussion: The most terrifying graph you will see all year. Or century, for that matter. [View all]tclambert
(11,077 posts)7. Because the vested interests (oil, coal, natural gas) want to make a penny more of profit.
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.
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The most terrifying graph you will see all year. Or century, for that matter. [View all]
kpete
Feb 2013
OP
Because the vested interests (oil, coal, natural gas) want to make a penny more of profit.
tclambert
Feb 2013
#7
A mea culpa is still needed if we want to make any progress. It's bad enough as is.
SleeplessinSoCal
Feb 2013
#24
It's going to take a mea culpa from the Koch Bros and others to beging to slow things down.
SleeplessinSoCal
Feb 2013
#17
I have suspected that there was something like this chart out there somewhere, for a while now.
patrice
Feb 2013
#26