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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by anonuser123456 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:45PM (#25239933)
So we just pay the losers a fee to go away.

If that means giving Exxon, BP, Shell ... a trillion dollars to just cap all their wells and F'off.... fine. Amortize it over 100 years and pay it down with the tax revenue from carbon.

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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by triceratops on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#25240928)
Fine. As long as we also charge them damages for lying to the public about climate change for all these years.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by anonuser123456 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:37PM (#25242522)
Consumers willingly purchase and burn hydrocarbons. Joe average consumer is as culpable as some C-suite executive.

And the only viable alternative until very recently... nuclear... is endlessly disparaged as unsafe by 'save the earth' types. So as far as I'm concerned, the green movement is equally culpable on the lying front. Should we charge the Sierra Club luddites too?

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