• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s almost funny when they try to argue “let’s not be hasty about green measures, it could hurt the economy”. It’s already way too late for green transitions but if we don’t do something drastic now, the holy economy will be fucked way way worse in the future than it already is now. Droughts, floods and catastrophic storms are really bad for everybody, but these idiots are too shortsighted and narrowminded to see that. “I wouldn’t affect me, I’m rich” is their motto. Yeah, but if the global economy tanks, your locked-in-shares money will be worthless.

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    7 months ago

    That was the point, politicians all over the EU have designed the system to do exactly that. The entire dither and delay tactics and watering down of measures, laws and scrutiny were all in the pursuit of extraction of maximum money from the governments into private hands in the name of investments and the politicians took their bribes to make it happen.