Agreed - they aren't necessarily consciously intending to do that, yet the outcome is the same.LTLFTcomposite wrote:But it is disingenuous to lay this all at the doorstep of big business. People won't go out today and buy a tank of gas, flip on their air conditioner, get on an airplane, or buy a cart full of cheap stuff from China at Walmart with the intent of protecting XOM profits.
Nobody is forcing them, certainly, yet combined with most consumer's unconscious actions, there is a very active campaign that intentionally masks some information consumers would use to adjust their behavior - like the...gentlemen... that wrote the article at the head of this thread, and folks at Heartland, for two examples.LTLFTcomposite wrote:Nobody is forcing anyone to do those things, they do so of free will, because the dollars they spend on those things bring more value to them than other things they could do, and frankly because it's a way of life we have all come to enjoy. Most of the denial comes from the consumers who don't want to give up the things that carbon enables.
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