What is so frustrating about these fools is that they are the politicians and greedy bastards who don't want a cut in their profits who use bogus science or the lowest scientists in the gene pool who will distort data for a few bucks. The vast majority of the scientific minds in the World agree and understand it's a very serious problem that can do an untold amount of damage to life on Earth.
So when the right wing fucktards have caused it to be too late to fix the problem, and we start seeing the devastating consequences and we start seeing end of the World type events - how will we punish those responsible. It will be too late. So shouldn't we start punishing them now?
Very funny, no? Anyway I'm not really interested in the punishment idea.
What is of interest is the way loony watermelons imply that opposition to the climate change agenda always comes from greedy, big-business capitalists.
This I believe is a falacy. In fact the climate change agenda is in some ways good for big-business.
Why? Well it's because the aims of big-businesses are very different to SMEs who are the main drivers of capitalism.
The aim of an SME is to grow -- to aquire more market share. Therefore they want to work in a low cost, competitve, free market environment. By contrast big-businesses simply wish to maintain their position within their industry.
And the easiest way to achieve this is to reduce competition. So big-businesses become very interested in what Warren Buffet calls "barriers to entry". That is to make it difficult for new businesses to compete.
And what is one of the best barriers to entry? REGULATION. The more hoops to jump through and the higher the start up costs the less competition big-business will face.
And the golden egg of regulation is... Climate Change.
Which is why I believe we've seen so many big-businesses jump on the climate change bandwagon in recent years.
And it is why it is an absolute falacy to suggest that big-business fundamentally opposes the climate change agenda.
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The Body Shop and that Whole Foods chain in the US both show business will adapt to changing consumer's attitudes to the climate. I'm sure anyone reading this blog will remember when the owner of Whole Foods outed himself as- gasp!- a capitalist, much to the horror of his righteous consumer base.
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