I genuinely believe that they're too proudly ignorant to get it. To them, climate change is something they're worried about in Ivory tower universities and on the political left. It's a proud ignorance that says "you smart people aren't going to tell US what to do."
Reminder that one of their (former) politicians thought an out-of-season snowball disproved global warming and nobody along the way told him how stupid that was...which is my proof that these politicians don't even have anyone in their orbit that understands how stupid that was.
Anyway, I still think making obscene amounts of money is their first priority and they either can't or won't understand the damage they do.
I think they get it, they just don't think they'll ever experience consequences. They can always move somewhere comparatively insulated from harm or don't see a point in worrying about anything that happens outside of their own lifetimes or are techno optimists and assume we'll crack fusion or invent efficient carbon scrubbers
Ahh, you know...you're not wrong; and probably the balanced answer is that the corporations themselves have a huge number of employees with beliefs along a wide spectrum, and there's definitely some sociopaths at the top like you describe. Another portion of their employees justify it for a paycheck, some that want to get out of the business, some people that are probably true believers in their companies, some in denial etc. I can't claim to accurately guess at what the breakdown would be though.
I genuinely believe that they're too proudly ignorant to get it. To them, climate change is something they're worried about in Ivory tower universities and on the political left. It's a proud ignorance that says "you smart people aren't going to tell US what to do."
Reminder that one of their (former) politicians thought an out-of-season snowball disproved global warming and nobody along the way told him how stupid that was...which is my proof that these politicians don't even have anyone in their orbit that understands how stupid that was.
Anyway, I still think making obscene amounts of money is their first priority and they either can't or won't understand the damage they do.
I think they get it, they just don't think they'll ever experience consequences. They can always move somewhere comparatively insulated from harm or don't see a point in worrying about anything that happens outside of their own lifetimes or are techno optimists and assume we'll crack fusion or invent efficient carbon scrubbers
Ahh, you know...you're not wrong; and probably the balanced answer is that the corporations themselves have a huge number of employees with beliefs along a wide spectrum, and there's definitely some sociopaths at the top like you describe. Another portion of their employees justify it for a paycheck, some that want to get out of the business, some people that are probably true believers in their companies, some in denial etc. I can't claim to accurately guess at what the breakdown would be though.