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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is.not much of a surprise given all the nonsense with new oil and gas contracts as well as the constant chipping away at green policies.

What I don’t get is the lack of sense of urgency amongst the 0.1% - we all live in the same planet and their mountains of cash will only get them so far (this side of jumping on a rocket ship to somewhere an order of magnitude or two more hostile to life).

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thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most of them probably think they will have died by the time the effects of climate change are great enough to bother them, or that their money will be enough to insulate themselves from it. There’s already plenty of Silicon Valley types fantasising about luxury doomsday bunkers.

I think there’s a significant amount of hopelessness and futility in the corridors of power also. It is an enormous task to get the entire world to take coordinated and far reaching action on anything, and some don’t think it’s possible.

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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Most of them probably think they will have died by the time the effects of climate change are great enough to bother them
  
  But they have tend to have children and grandchildren.
  
  or that their money will be enough to insulate themselves from it.
  
  Yes, if there’s a cull, they’ll be on the right end of the scythe.
  
  I have a horrible suspicion that they’ve just drunk the Koolaid - if you only hang around with energy executives who are also denying climate change you either buy into the idea that there isn’t a problem or hand-wave it away by saying some boffin will solve the problem.
  
  It is an enormous task to get the entire world to take coordinated and far reaching action on anything, and some don’t think it’s possible.
  
  It may not be.
  
  Carbon capture and storage or geoengineering just look to be fig leaves that allow Big Carbon to keep rumbling on (why a lot of the argument at COP 28 was over “abatement”). Which feels very short-termist, if they redirected a fraction of the profits (or the money they spend lobbying against green legislation) into building things like solar energy farms across North Africa and the southern states in the US, they could create a future of near limitless profit for themselves. Unfortunately, while the dirty energy companies are fighting any change to their status quo, making any progress will be impossible.
  
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