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by bamboozled 2149 days ago
Are you entitled to clean air when 0.000000000001% of the population can make billions from selling fossil fuels ?
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Air pollution results in a higher death rate and is a public health issue. Light pollution is certainly a problem, but probably not on the same scale.
This point I'm making here is that it's really just a matter of perspectives.
Even if one might quibble with the premise, parent's point is that the fortunes of the many outweigh those of the few. Your point is what... the converse? I don't think I can agree.
That is only because it’s the view of some peope this will be of net benefit to the world, flossing over some of the more obvious problems we are seeing the Internet cause today. Surveillance, disinformation, interference in democratic process to name a few.