Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.
His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.
@Ulan_KA @davidho But capitalism will always benefit the private owners of the means of production. The accumulation and protection of wealth are inherent characteristics of the system.
Capitalism is a flawed system because there is nothing in it that requires the owners of capital to be ethical or moral.
The oil industry has known since 1977 that they were contributing to climate change. They then spent billions of dollars trying to convince the world that climate change wasn't real.
Consumers rarely have enough power to make an unethical company change. Exxon, Monsanto, Nestle, JPMorgan Chase are all companies thriving today that have done highly unethical (though legal) things.
Granted, here in the US, we have a political system where the rich have a larger say by influencing politicians through large campaign donations. Those politicians then pass laws overwhelmingly in favor of corporations either through that direct influence or through lobbying.
@denniskoch @davidho
I don't deny, that The Rich use the system of capitalism, but they do so with Feudalism and Communism, too.
It's always #TheRich. They use whatever system of opression there is to maintain their privileges.
The oil & gas industry is one of the most profitable businesses in history.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/big-oil-doubles-profits-blockbuster-2022-2023-02-08/
The oil & gas industry is one of the most heavily taxpayer subsidized industries on the planet.
https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-closer-look-at-tax-breaks-and-societal-costs
The oil & gas industry has drained $3 billion USD a day for 50 years from democracies.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years
The oil & gas industry funds anti-democracy disinformation & climate denial malign influence campaigns
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/big-oil-disinformation-record-profits-climate/index.html
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/16/oil-industry-election-climate-denial-stop-steal/
They also were given record subsidies.
“Fossil fuel consumption subsidies soared to record heights in 2022” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/fossil-fuel-consumption-subsidies-energy-2022/
@Npars01 @davidho 👏👏👏 In our time the fossil-fuels industry is an obstacle to human survival. Nothing less!
Heat waves, floodings, hail storms & other extreme climate phenomena are the results of mindless use of substances, that have been known to kill the climate we've been living with for so long without caring.
Time to tell fossil fuels "Fuck off!" before they tell us to!
#SaveLives #SaveThePlanet #FreeFromFossilFuels #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice
His testimony fell on truly deaf ears, since members of Congress were very much self-invested in preserving the exploitation....
@Andreas_Sturm The motivation for the now well-known Exxon scientific study was to get an impartial look at how long and how much they could keep going with the petroleum profits. They then hid the results from the public and even ran propaganda against activism because that would have also impacted profits. It's about money.
@Andreas_Sturm @davidho I think it’s massive underground cities + transhumanism.
Reshape society.
(see my other comment just now on this post.)
BTW—
if anyone has a source for the massive underground cities (well, 10,000 people) that the CIA (or whoever) has been purportedly constructing for the last 20+ years,
I’d love to see it.
@davidho and for more general use: nuclear energy (the video stops before he says it).
@davidho … and #exxonknew ExxonnMobile knew since 1970
and
the Oil & Gas trade assoc. knew since 1950
and
there was a newspaper published in 1899 that stated unequivocally that burning coal made CO2 which blanketed the earth and heated it.
(saw this post earlier; can’t find it again)
We’ve know for a LONG time.
The problem:
They have a transhumanist view.
#onepercent gonna live underground cities.
a #greatreset of humanity seems their goal — remake society.
(within 200 years)
The article you were looking for was 1912 (but there was a scientific paper in 1896 which discussed it - AFAIK that was the first). Referenced:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/
@davidho What left-wing liberal witchcraft is this? MORE CARS AND ROADS. ECONOMY. LESS PLASTIC BAGS! WHAT ABOUT CHINA. KILL POLAR BEARS SAVE WALES.
Now, these ideas don't really mix together immediately. Let me check Fox News. OMG.
Just for context: 6 years before, President Carter installed solar panels (renewable energy) on the White House roof: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/the-forgotten-story-of-jimmy-carters-white-house-solar-panels/
When Sagan gave this address, they were still up. A year later, they got taken down under the Reagan administration.
Carter knew in 1977.
@davidho
This may have influenced the script of the 1991 movie "Naked Gun 2 1/2" which beside all the jokes covers a lot of environmental issues.
Unfortunately the movie seems to be one of the more serious reactions to Sagan's speech.
@davidho if only he had used PowerPoint....
But seriously. ExxonMobil knew in the 1970s.
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