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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Wed Sep 25, 2013, 05:10 PM Sep 2013

Do you think Corporations are letting Global Warming happen for other reasons? [View all]

The reason we think is so they can continue to burn fossil fuel for cheap..

But I've been thinking...let's just say Antarctica becomes liveable

You now have the one thing we didn't think we were getting more of - that is real estate

Sure, there's a treaty in place keeping people from moving there.

But there were a lot of broken treaties through history

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Do you think Corporations are letting Global Warming happen for other reasons? [View all] Taverner Sep 2013 OP

Subsidies for green tech? Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #1

arctic oil, gas, mining and shipping tk2kewl Sep 2013 #2

Yep, as well as Antarctic Oil Taverner Sep 2013 #4

Making the climate more suitable for cold blooded creatures like themselves? nt raouldukelives Sep 2013 #3

LOL Taverner Sep 2013 #7

They own the world's supply of fossil fuels upaloopa Sep 2013 #5

You know, a simple law taxing inheretances at 97% would solve that in 50 years Taverner Sep 2013 #6

It ain't just Antarctica... RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #8

Northwest passage? nt silvershadow Sep 2013 #9

i think they've written the catastrophe off. Warren Stupidity Sep 2013 #10

And THEN do we get to eat them? Taverner Sep 2013 #11

No, we will all be dead. Warren Stupidity Sep 2013 #12

You think corporations are looking centuries ahead? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #13

precisely. cali Sep 2013 #16

Most corporations are Edim Sep 2013 #14

ridiculous. It has to do with profits NOW cali Sep 2013 #15