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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by sokoloff on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:09AM (#34159798)
Are Exxon, Mobil, and others responsible for my car’s emissions because they extracted and refined the fuel? Or perhaps it’s Honda because they built it?

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s actually me who is responsible because I’m the one who bought it and decided to drive it.

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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by dotancohen on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:46AM (#34160056)
Exxon and Mobil are part of the industry - note that I said industry and did not specify any particular level of participation.

Is Philip-Morris responsible for lung cancer, just because they purchased and refined the tobacco and sold it to consumers? It's the consumers who bought it and decided to smoke it.

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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:17AM (#34160265)
Is it government investors and subsidies that prop up failing businesses? Nope, it's vooters.
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by sokoloff on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:58AM (#34160136)
Anyone who picked up smoking after around the early 1960s (when it was abundantly clear that smoking causes lung cancer)? Lung cancer they got from tobacco is on them, IMO.
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