Re:Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks
by xkcd-sucks on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:29PM
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Nestle kind of goes above and beyond in this regard... Messing with access to potable water is certainly relevant to climate change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9#Controversy_and_cr...
Re:Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks
by throwaway5752 on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:37PM
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It's not causing climate change, though. That's saying nothing of their ethics, or how the impact their activities are having particularly with the accelerating climate emergency, but it's a matter of critical focus that we stop CO2 emissions, not divest companies that are unethical (admirable, but entirely separate).
For what it's worth, that is precisely how this effort will be gaslit. Divide and conquer.
Re:Big Money Starts to Dump Stocks That Pose Climate Risks
by sjaknanxnnx on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:21PM
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Gaslighting is where an abuser says and does unexpected things that make the abused doubt their perceptions and sanity. I learned about it in film class in college. Suddenly people are using the term to describe all sorts of actions that don’t seem to fit that mold (but that involve some sort of ill intent). What gives?
When you get to the level of those companies, surely they're going to do something evil. I'm not even sure what you're referring to with Nestle (baby milk?).
Id prefer to have it based on something more solid like carbon intensity or no oil or something actually measurable by us and the offending companies, rather than nebulous 'ethics'.