• nicetriangle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Thing that drives me crazy is those assholes have had all the money in the world for decades to become global leaders in renewable tech and infrastructure. They know as well as anyone that fossil fuels are unsustainable and finite.

    But nah, they’ll just keep riding this thing into the dumpster fire while gaslighting regular people about how our forgetting to turn off a light bulb is the problem.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of people think like you do. Unfortunately half the population is below average in intelligence and not interested in solving long term problems.

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      1 year ago

      Their mindset is “Fossil fuels are still needed now, and if my company doesn’t grab them, someone else will” and it’s just so easy to continue getting those short term profits for their shareholders.

      They may have long term plans for investment in renewables, but they won’t enact them until forced to (by government or market conditions). I imagine oil costs (and therefore profits) will skyrocket as it becomes more scarce, and they’d want to ride that all the way to the bank (and hell) before pivoting.

      Basically, capitalism will be capitalism - its only moral is money. The only way is to have governments worldwide force them to change, and that ain’t gonna happen.