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by vixen99 1704 days ago
No, you and I kept up the demand on the fossil fuel industry without which it would not exist and all of us went along with it and now you want them to pay for your and my indulgence. How sweetly ironic! It's never our fault, is it?
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malermeister 1704 days ago
This is a classic case of victim blaming. You and I didn't "keep up demand" because we wanted to, we "kept up demand" because it was the only option available to heat our homes.

It's not our fault the industry didn't provide us with alternatives.

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joe_the_user 1704 days ago
Whether you blame the fossil fuel industry or not, they don't have the cure to their destruction in their back pocket or something.

Even if you seized all the stocks and bonds of the fossil fuel industry, you wouldn't have the money required to solve this problem and you wouldn't have a plan to solve the problem.

It's not our fault the industry didn't provide us with alternatives.

It's not really the job of a given industry to provide alternatives. That job, in a modern democratic society, devolves to the state. The US state certainly failed there and was corrupted by private industry (auto and petroleum certainly). But the only way out is the state stepping up and moreover, the state stepping up with statist solutions - building things (public transit), requiring things (electric cars), prohibiting things (CO2 generating production processes) and requiring things (Non-CO2 generating things and possibly/eventually sequestering). Honestly, I'd see anyone thinking taxes or credits could be the solution as part of the problem.

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malermeister 1704 days ago
They might not have the cure in their back pocket, but they sure hid evidence of the consequences of their actions for decades. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

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