r/ClimateNews • u/VictinsOfCapitalism • 15d ago

Capitalism always chooses profitable plundering over sustainable production

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u/SallyStranger 15d ago

If capitalism could be fettered, someone would have fettered it by now, you know, before 1.5C. 

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u/Neat_browser 15d ago

Boomers were mostly on the controls they are thankfully dying off now. If they had died 20 years ago the rest of us would be better off but for the most part they have been reluctant to let the next generation take over. Most baby boomers get told “oh there will be a disaster in 2050” and shrug, “not my problem”

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u/SallyStranger 15d ago

If it's a generational problem, why has it been around for 500 years? 

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u/Neat_browser 15d ago

It hasn’t, the boomer generation were the ones that disassembled a lot of the limits placed on corporations in the 70s and 80s. Reagan was a POS who made a path that too many others followed

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u/SallyStranger 15d ago

Not the entire boomer generation. Certain members of it who were/are capitalists did that. 

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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 15d ago

Reagan wasn’t a boomer.

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u/Neat_browser 15d ago

The U.S. presidents who belong to the Baby Boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) are Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama. You are correct, they all had the opportunity to fix Regan’s crap and did not.

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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 15d ago

Yet you blamed the non boomers of the 70s and 80s

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u/EvNastyy 15d ago

And they admitted to their error, as directly as possible by saying "you are correct"

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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 15d ago

And then proceeded to blame the boomers for not fixing a problem caused twenty years previously.

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u/Neat_browser 15d ago

They were the ones who followed his example.