If you are still wondering about the stubbornness of the #FossilFools in charge...
Update: it brings me no pleasure to report that apparently this cartoon is from the 70s, and things have not changed one damn bit.
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If you are still wondering about the stubbornness of the #FossilFools in charge...
Update: it brings me no pleasure to report that apparently this cartoon is from the 70s, and things have not changed one damn bit.
@StOnSoftware thank you, I had misspelled his name.
@pezmico Bill Gates: Solar Dimming is inevitable.
@pezmico If.he was smart, he'd note that making solar panels requires a little bit of coal, which he owns. One solar cell factory later, and the solar revolution is also a source of money for him.
@pezmico According to this PDF (haven't verified it's real)
Exxon seemed to have believed in "Greenhouse" Effect, but don't talk with outsiders about it...
@pezmico True so so true
@pezmico With a million Starlink satellites in orbit, the muskrat will probably also try to block out the Sun for us...
Madness is unstoppable.
That old cartoon still holds up well after being over fifty years old.
@pezmico Indeed, back in 1972-74, I was a member of a crew which produced what in those days was called an 'underground magazine', and we (illegally of course, we were all anarchists) republished that cartoon in a special issue on the Club of Rome Report.
Yes, the #ClimateCrisis is older than you thought -- and still virtually nothing's been done.
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
@pezmico it's ok, they will invade the countries that have the required minerals and own those mines too. :(
Seems like this is an appropriate song in response to both your post and tonights #JukeboxFridayNight
Lorde - Solar Power