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The world is warming faster than scientists expected | Fossil fuel groups and investors cannot afford to ignore the warnings (www.ft.com)

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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fossil fuel groups and investors cannot afford to ignore...

They're not ignoring anything. This copium pisses me off.

From the article:

At the start of last week, the head of the world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, was applauded when he told the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston it was time to “abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas”.

But what if they dont care? What if they don't care and haven't for so long they've actively lied to the government and the public for years, showing us unequivocally they only care, quite a bit, about continuing to do whatever they please? Buying government officials, etc. all showing us their intent.

Oil company bosses may prefer to preach a message of business as usual. But neither they nor anyone else can afford once again to downplay what science is showing us about a climate threat that is now moving into uncharted territory.

Perhaps begging (hoping? coping?) that fossil fuel groups and investors will somehow "see the light" and change in their own is useless and stupid, when it's been made stupendously clear their position is firm? They knew the science in the 50s. Why would this change their minds?

God that set me off. Rant over

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. All I had in my mind was, as these trends continue to worsen, flashes of mobs at the gates of these fuckers’ mansions. If we want a shred of a snowball’s chance in hell of righting the ship, we need this anger to overflow, like, right now. Not only after we’ve started starving.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Basically...

"This serial killer should feel remorse." Ok... But he doesn't because he's a hedonistic nihilist who lives off the suffering of others. You can't reason with that because you don't actually have any bargaining power except violence.

Stop trying to pretend that these people care about the survival of humanity. They knew about this, they built their oil rigs taller to account for it. The oil industry and humanity are now locked in a zero sum game: one survives or the other, it cannot be both.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you misunderstood me? Or maybe you responded to the wrong person? All I said was “we need the collective anger at what these people have done to us to become active right now. We need to storm their mansions with overwhelming force.” I never said I expected these remorseless killers to change or feel remorse. I said we need to deal with them all in a mass guillotine party.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, I was agreeing, just didn't really communicate it super well.