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  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
    hexbear
    35
    2 months ago

    It's fun to imagine all the 'market solutions' libs after 50 years of thinking they had solved everything and the planet was carbon neutral elmofire

  • bumpusoot [none/use name]
    hexbear
    23
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    It's as if it was impossible to turn externalised costs into a functioning market. Because all the most successful sellers in that market will.. externalise their costs.

  • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
    hexbear
    22
    2 months ago

    Carbon credits is one of the funniest concepts ever. Like how anybody can take the “””market””” seriously after learning of such thing deserves to get their heads smashed in. Such a cartoonishly stupid scam but yet somehow managed to trick rubes into thinking it’ll save them from disaster if companies just traded permission slips back and forth

  • invo_rt [he/him]
    hexbear
    17
    2 months ago

    The company that hid evidence of carbon emissions on the climate?? who-did-this

  • LaughingLion [any, any]
    hexbear
    12
    2 months ago

    and they aint even the only ones

    enron was also in the bogus carbon trading game btw

  • barrbaric [he/him]
    hexbear
    5
    2 months ago

    Well, we tried neoliberal market incentives, guess we have to start choppin' execs, right? Surely we won't just double down on just giving the rich more money for free, right? anakin-padme-2

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