"Saving the planet costs money! We don't have money to spend!!" - biggest polluters, which also happen to be some of the world's biggest companies
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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It shouldnt be our responsibility. Its corporations. We should hold them accountable.
Let's be real though. It's us we're wanting to save. Us and a couple of very sensitive species. The planet will get on just fine after we die off and stop fucking it up.
Hijacking this comment for a PSA; We are currently in the midst of a mass extinction event; many more plant, animal, and insect species are on the brink of extinction than normal. Scientists also estimate that forty-one percent of ecosystems are on the verge of collapse. Climate change, human encroachment, pollution, hunting, etc. have done a number on the environment.
Phew. I can stop worrying about how I’ll be able to afford to retire.
I'm just going to rob the hell's angels.
If the labor class wasn't losing a class war to the capital holders you'd see 10x the support for saving the planet. But right now cost of living is so bad that folks are easily susceptible to propaganda that divides the labor class, and environmentalism is just one of the issues they've chosen to use as a wedge issue.
It's obvious how "do you want the cost of gas to go up?" is an effective propaganda message. Or "Do you want your taxes to go up and be used to wash sad animals while your own kids go hungry and get no Christmas presents?"
That's the real kicker here, a huge number of folks are barely scraping by and the propaganda lies and tells them the only way we can have environmentalism is by them suffering more. They're already scared and desperate, sad animals is nothing compared to their own families suffering.