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by lostlogin 1651 days ago
> The climate comments here are virtue signaling. Like it or not it was completely legal.

Laws come and go. It’s not hard to think of things that seem blatantly wrong now, that were formerly legal. Do we describe those that wanted the law changes that have since occurred as ‘virtue signalling’?

Making money by pouring oil into the environment seems pretty clearly wrong.

I’d argue that the behaviour of the protagonists in the article is virtue signalling, they are seemingly doing good things for their community while actually damaging the place.