Climate Change: Follow the money behind global warming denial

[acollectivegood]

It always seemed to me that it was just too easy for corporate interests, especially big oil, to promote denial and skepticism about global warming. In this day of easy access to information on the internet, I could quickly look up the funding of scientists who were publishing studies that refuted climate change theories, and I found that they

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[the_rukh]

Hmm, could be.

[sealwhiskers]

Well, I think it is also this group which actively take part in small or big ways, to put corporate lobbying money into the whole equation and is actually "buying" parts of
government. The US is on good way to already becoming a corporatocracy, it is just not as widely discussed as it should.

[whak_hat]

Global warming is not the problem. It is a natural phenomenon. Pollution, especially plastic waste is a very real and very dangerous threat to the earth and ourselves. Deforestation is also a very real threat. War that is eroding our good land and polluting our waters, all very real. Landmines that are decades old, undetonated, very big problem. Children being kidnapped, raped and executed unfairly as war criminals is also a problem.

So let's tackle the actual problems of the world and leave this bullshit 'global warming' aside.