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How to make polluters pay | A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund.”
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
As nice as these proposals are I doubt it will change anything. Why change their ways when they can not pay millions to changes internal processes and only pay a couple tens of thousands a year in ~~fines~~ contributions.
Until management and executives level employees are helt personally liable for the actions taken nothing will change.
And that won't change until corporations aren't legally considered as individuals.