Prof. Stefan RahmstorfNov 20, 2022
My view: The climate loss&damage fund should also be filled by those companies who knowingly sell a dangerous product and actively mislead the public about the risks and lobby against climate policy. Precedent is the tobacco companies’ case.
Show threadMark O - Hall monitor typeNov 20, 2022
@rahmstorf I wish we'd stop calling it lobbying and call it for what it is, legalized bribery.
Asbestos, tobacco, oil, gas, pharmaceuticals, health care, the media, social networks.
Not all dangerous per se, but controlled by big money they are dangerous as they influence peoples lives which all cause excess deaths and inequality.
Show threadUlf J. FroitzheimNov 22, 2022
@rahmstorf @mojomoomoo Strange that you mention products like asbestos and tobacco together with medicine or media.
Show threadMark O - Hall monitor type
@UJF @rahmstorf
They are all products that are controlled by the super wealthy, they are all consumed. The media is manipulated, targeted, twisted abused for humans gains. Free press is being squeezed.
Medicine was in the past created by people who gave their lives for the improvement of health often testing on themselves to prove theories.
Today especially in the US, patents are snapped up and prices inflated, take insulin which is incredibly cheap to make yet being sold for sky-high prices.
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Show threadMark O - Hall monitor typeNov 22, 2022
@UJF @rahmstorf
This then feeds into the need for health insurance which the sale of is controlled cross state.
Just like asbestos and tobacco did in the past, pharma and health care lobby, keeping patents locked for medicines , stopping cross border health insurance sales which keeps prices high as there is no competition.
Bad things were sold as good and good things are controlled in a way that makes them bad.
Show threadUlf J. FroitzheimNov 23, 2022
@rahmstorf @mojomoomoo As far as you’re talking about the US, I tend to agree mostly. In Europe, it’s not that bad, except in certain countries.
Show threadMark O - Hall monitor typeNov 23, 2022
@UJF @rahmstorf
The UK is going that way unfortunately. Agreed a lot of Europe have been resistant, Hungary doesn't even have Amazon.