11-02-2019, 03:43 AM
Burning fossil fuels and the resultant climate change wasn’t caused by one person. It could not have been stopped by a single act. As Obie pointed out, every one of us is responsible. Every unnecessary trip to the store for “a couple of things?” It burned extra gas.
Now we’re all paying for it with hotter temperatures and stronger storms. Just as with cigarettes, there is certainly personal responsibility by those who chose to smoke. But eventually the tobacco companies were made to pay for their part in the deception for knowingly selling a product that addicted their customers and then sickened them with cancer and heart disease.
The fossil fuel industry had studies which showed what would happen, they knew this decades ago. They should pay for their part in the wreckage of their unmitigated profit taking, just like the cigarette manufacturers.
Now we’re all paying for it with hotter temperatures and stronger storms. Just as with cigarettes, there is certainly personal responsibility by those who chose to smoke. But eventually the tobacco companies were made to pay for their part in the deception for knowingly selling a product that addicted their customers and then sickened them with cancer and heart disease.
The fossil fuel industry had studies which showed what would happen, they knew this decades ago. They should pay for their part in the wreckage of their unmitigated profit taking, just like the cigarette manufacturers.
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