Climate Change? Nahhh ...

It's easy for you to say that. I mean, when you sold your home, you weren't concerned about mundane things like the price you got. And when you bought a car, you didn't shop, you just offered five times what it turned out they wanted from the next guy who came in. And you work a job all week and would never think of being compensated.

. ... All of those companies have customers who are buying what they are selling. American Airlines is on that list. It's absurd to think that they are not going to keep on doing what they are doing when it's 1) perfectly legal and 2) they are growing capacity because there are so much for demand for their carbon-emitting flights. Pointing fingers at them is silly. ... but it's some amorphous, big bad guy causing the world to fall apart, not the person you are looking at in the mirror, so it is easy (and cheap).

Those companies use silly climate buzzwords to placate the niche groups even getting anyone thinking about climate change (this is a PR battle, not a substantive battle), they set targets in the distant future to kick the can down the road, and they then greenwash the few particulars related to change that they are even specific about. They behave that way, because their CUSTOMERS are not pressing them to do what that climate group wants.

They have little incentive to make the kinds of changes that group is pushing for, and even if they made changes, there is so much demand for the carbon-emitting goods and services that they offer, that others would fill the void to meet the demand. There is no magic wand that makes flights as cheap as they are, for example, while reducing emmissions.

The idea that commerical concerns are going to effect climate change -- or that it would be incumbent on them to be a driver for it -- is absurd, when they have billions of customers who aren't demanding those changes (by not buying what they sell). But the broad mass of humanity doesn't get the silly "fuck everyone and everything else" label, it's Foxcomm or Nestle or Mercedes Benz.

Nothing changes, unless one of three (or all three) things happen: 1) The world outlaws some of the behavior of those companies, or 2) people stop buying what they are selling, or 3) technologically things happen that allow us to have the kinds of things those companies offer for the same price or less, in a way that does not emit carbons to the same degree they currently are. The first of those things would require an adult conversation about how people's standards of livings would drop dramtaically, and that doesn't happen because they know people will almost certainly choose door B, the one that the people with the biggest climate concerns don't want.