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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
12. Three sentences. One is correct and the other two are garbage.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 07:32 PM
Nov 2013

> Your view of accountability is waaay out on the fringe

Garbage. His view is mainstream amongst environmentalists (if not economists).

> These 90 companies have built enormous wealth and need to be targeted going forward.

Correct. Totally correct.

> You really sound like you are defending fossil fuel companies.

Garbage. NickN79 has less of a history of defending fossil fuel companies that you do.
You might not like him for his pro-nuclear views but he has been more consistently
against natural gas (for example) than you have and a "fossil fuel defender" he isn't.


Your original statement was this:
>> Those 90 companies are serving the interests of a small fraction of the world's population

That is simply wrong.

"Those 90 companies are *owned by* a small (tiny, tiny) fraction of the world's population." Correct.

"Those 90 companies employ a small (globally small) fraction of the world's population." Correct.

"Those 90 companies directly benefit a small fraction of the world's population." Correct.

"The output of those 90 companies is serving the interests of a small fraction of the world's population." Wrong.

Target the primary fossil fuel companies (as you suggested in your 2nd statement) - not the people
who are fighting them.

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