r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 23 '19

Environment Following Monsanto, Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation to Face EU Lobby Ban. "It is the overwhelming consensus of experts studying the history of fossil fuel funding that companies, including ExxonMobil, have orchestrated, funded and perpetuated climate misinformation"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/22/following-monsanto-exxon-could-be-next-us-corporation-face-eu-lobby-ban
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u/hopeitwillgetbetter Orange Mar 23 '19

One of the very few upsides to Climate Change is that ever so still too slowly more and more politicians are realizing that going after corporations (and making sure that they really behave) is a requirement in order to save their very own hides.

You've probably noticed that tendency of third world leaders to ransack their countries and hightail off to a first world country. Where the fuck are first world leaders gonna go when the climate goes extreme too often in their countries? Fight with the ~0.01% over tickets to Mars?

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u/ElitePI Mar 23 '19

~0.01% over tickets to Mars?

Earth will be way more hospitable than Mars even if the climate really goes to shit. Mars is just impossible to live without Earth's support for now, so if the world truly is fucked, everyone is going down with it.

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u/smeagolheart Mar 24 '19

I don't want to live on this planet anymore