Andrew Gallagher on Nostr: "It is hard to say openly that you don’t care about the long-term future of the ...

"It is hard to say openly that you don’t care about the long-term future of the planet because you won’t be alive to see it, or because your short-term profits are more important. So respectable-sounding arguments about the affordability of climate policies are made instead.

But the pushback against these policies should be seen for what it is: a highly political attempt to spare the rich and other heavy carbon emitters from making sacrifices."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/super-rich-pollution-earth-climate-crisis