Other comments are wrong to blame this on “stupidity” instead of corrupt profit seeking incentives.
Right. They’re a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of those things.
The system works not only as planned, but as excruciatingly maintained - it takes so much work to keep this clusterfuck alive at peak status quo of financial gains & wealth accumulation.
Yup. Which is why we need to bring back the guillotine.
The proper one, I really don’t want to see any plastic parts.
People are generally ignorant and stupid.
Neat, huh?
When I grew up evangelical, I was told that it didn’t matter because god was going to renew the earth when he shows up any second now.
That’s what they believe, that climate change is a distraction and we shouldn’t worry cause god will just medically deal with it
Renew? Like exactly as it was in late Cretaceous?
That suxs, we all know Earth peaked mid Permian. I want the glory days.
I know it’s technically a usable defense, but how often is the Act of God defense actually ruled? From what I understand, it rarely works, and you’d have a better chance with any other defense. Has it been successfully used recently?
They have already done that, that’s how capitalism works. No course of action can get back from corps those trillions in profits they made for their shareholders, or make them reverse the damages an order of magnitude bigger than that.
This is true if we ignore monotheism and go with one of the -isms where humanity is god.
David J. Darling, renown astrophysicist, proposed that we are actually God, capital G. That we evolve into a universal collective God consciousness and reach back through time to create ourselves.