You assume that it’s that kind of post? Where does it say anywhere that “dogs are better than humans?” You’re just bringing your own assumptions to this thread and treating it as fact.

Breaking news!!

I once found a message in a bottle at Ocean beach in SF. It was basically someone writing out all the things they wished they had. The main part I remember is that the writer wanted "a successful man who works in tech", which seemed incredibly unromantic for a message in a bottle.

Yeah but it feels tone deaf Like I know this is the "dOgS are SoOoO muCh bEtTer tHaN HumAns" site but thousands of people died. A dog being saved isn't uplifting and sometimes highlight the """good moments""" is not only not actually that important but insulting to the victims of a tragedy.

"We only like echo chambers here."

Agreed. That logic is pretty retarded. Selling oil is criminal but buying oil isn't criminal? What a fucking double standard.

What do you heat your house with snd what powers your transport. Genuinely interested.

Over half the modern world would not be possible without petroleum byproducts. Unless you want to go back to living like it's the early 1800s, killing the global petroleum industry will literally kill over 1/3rd the worlds population in less than 2 generations.

Unfortunately, too many people don't do their homework, and so they have been in the past stirred up by the "greenies just want to take our jobs"

How dare you bring logic into an emotion based argument!

The capitalist argument is not to forth the sway of the market with money from the top - it's that the consumers money sways thenl market. If consumers what ev, renewable energies, etc, they will buy them. If they are readily available and not being purchased it's largely because the market does not want them and/or they are not market viable.

Some tragic moments can’t be avoided, but it’s also important to highlight the good moments when they come along, however small.

The only renewable worth a damn is nuclear. And a petroleum company is highly unlikely to invest the sums of money needed to build nuclear plants that effectively kill the primary industry of the petroleum companies.

it sets a precedent. the fact that they are personally being sued is actually a big deal.

and also, the whole mindset of "nothing works so its a waste of time" is a cop out.

No reason they can't invest that oil money into renewables after all.

The government successfully started prosecuting mafia members for tax fraud. Perhaps a more circuitous route will be successful in here too. It's still a path to more renewable energy, even if it's about profits. Isn't that one of the whole capitalist arguments anyway--sway the market using money? They used it as an excuse to keep producing oil and gas, and now it's being used against them.

Ninja edit: I'm not saying that they actually care about green energy. I'm positive it's about money. But it's still a win for green energy and climate causes if they win/enact changes.

Also the company needs to survive to keep the money rolling in. If shareholders start demanding that companies "go green" or at least greener, to stay relevant that is at least going in the right direction.

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I would like them held responsible just like big tobacco and big pharma

It's a start? Why do negative in /uplifting news?

If that was true, renewables wouldn't be one of the biggest growth sectors.

They have influence, but they don't have control.

Just checking, wanting to make sure you're not seriously saying that climate change isn't an emergency? Please say I have misinterpreted this? Because almost all the data we have on the subject suggests it is an emergency that we need to do as much as we can to revert, to prevent millions (or even billions) of deaths.

after removing the litter from the beach, a new note was added to the litter, and then the litter was thrown back into the ocean

Wait climate change wasn’t supposed to affect poor countries only? /s

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Nintendo is the least consumer-friendly gaming related company on the planet.

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