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Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by bryanlarsen on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:41AM (#28728141)
One of the most famous speeches in American history:

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - Kennedy

I believe that fighting climate change is a problem of similiar magnitude to going to the moon in 1969, and smaller than winning WWII. We did both of those things, we can do this. But we have to want to.

Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by ramphastidae on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:39AM (#28728477)
Come on. The US did not go to the moon because millions of Americans banded together and sacrificed around a single goal. The US went to the moon because the government felt capitalism was losing the PR battle to communism (Soviets) and so decided to pour money into it because they didn’t want to look bad. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by bryanlarsen on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:19AM (#28728748)
A majority of Americans opposed the Apollo program. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/a-maj...

A majority of Americans support action on climate change.

Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by da_big_ghey on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:06AM (#28729135)
"Action on climate change" very vague... mostly that is "get more electricity from renewable, maybe get an electric car". It is nothing that reduces the quality of life, that is supported from very few people, almost none. There is reasons the answer to how to fund is always "make the rich pay", Americans do not like paying for stuff.
Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by lenkite on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:12AM (#28744299)
That speech is just fluff, feel-good PR written by a professional speech writer.

US wished to flex its muscles since it was losing the space race to the Soviet Union. If the pure-Communists can beat you in an advanced tech area, then there is something wrong with pure capitalism.

When the Chinese start leading the pack in green initiatives and propagandising their efforts, the US will hard-press the accelerator.

Competition is the essence and core of the human spirit.

Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:58AM (#28728228)
Which is exactly the problem, the generations of Americans who actually wanted to and were capable of doing great things is long gone. We have since been trained by sociopaths to believe only in sociopathy, to only look out for our own interests and eat our fellow man if it betters our lot, and that this is righteous and good. We have systematically dismantled their great works.

If we bank on the will of the American people we are surely doomed.

Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by smileysteve on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:31AM (#28728425)
This is nostalgia; for every American in the past that dreamed of great things, there is a Snopes, Salem, McCarthy
Re:Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against U... by captainredbeard on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:16AM (#28728731)
FWIW the government and media were full of communists, McCarthy wasn’t wrong, he just had bad tactics.