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by beckman466
1721 days ago
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> These companies don't exist in a vacuum. BP aren't pumping up oil and hoping that an evil megacorp will just buy it. People like you and me are driving the demand for products with huge amounts of waste and dirty manufacturing processes. Oil companies like BP and Shell blocked the dissemination of vital scientific research on climate change. They also blocked the development of electric cars, or alternatives in general. [1] Executives in the car industry also hold back the development of high speed rail networks through lobbying. > Westerners will do literally anything except make any changes to their behavior. It's hard for the working class to see the full picture when we live in a proprietary, black box -world that only allows a small group of people to become science literate. A society where the propertied class undemocratically charts the direction for science through 'intellectual property' claims, which blocks scientific progress as it commoditizes and removes important feedback loops/learnings from the commons. [2] [1] https://archive.org/details/vimeo-210171457 [2] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley |
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I was taught about global warming as a child at school in the 90s. Are we going to keep blaming it on suppression of information for another 30 years?
> They also blocked the development of electric cars, or alternatives in general.
Electric cars don't solve any problems apart from reduce pollution in cities maybe. The change that is required includes not using 2 tonne vehicles to move around everywhere. Electric cars are just another example of people refusing to change their behaviour.
> It's hard for the working class to see the full picture when we live in a proprietary, black box -world that only allows a small group of people to become science literate.
There has never been a better time in history for finding information or becoming scientifically literate. I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
But none of this will help us anyway. Capitalism keeps us divided and divided we will fall. There's simply no way that any large-scale change is going to happen without coordinated, top-down, systematic enforcement from governments. We need to make people realise that we're all in this together. But this isn't how animal brains operate, unfortunately.