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Miles
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Miles asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 7 years ago

Have you read Mckenzie Funk's book Windfall?

Is the future of deniers to make money on climate change?

Update:

Sorry Hey Dook I don't have a link. Its available on Amazon. An American author and well worth the time I think. Outlines how big money and oil industry not only believe in AGW they are investing and preparing to make money on it.

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  • 7 years ago
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    No. How about a link?

    Edit: Okay thanks for the elaboration. In answer I would say that for fossil fuel companies, the book apparently (and I would correctly) argues that they have shifted from denial to trying to make money. In general most people, including most deniers, are not going to be in a position to make money off climate change.

    I would thus say: The future of man-made climate change deniers is to (a) stop denying man-made climate change and simultaneously (b) start denying they ever had denied it.

    Oil companies are doing (b) although they were too public to do so immediately after (a).

    This is a common pattern among liars. When their lie is exposed, they lie about having lied.

    The shift will be a long term one overall though. We still have people denying the Holocaust, even though the penalties for doing so can be significant unlike with climate science denial. Until a few years ago, the Flat Earth Society was still semi-active.

  • 7 years ago

    A common Joe Six Pack make money from Climate Change? You ought to go on Comedy Central. We are to be fleeced not get rich.

    Quote by Maurice Strong, a wealthy elitist and primary power behind UN throne, and large CO2 producer: "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable."

    I don't see anything there that includes reasonable people getting rich. But I do see some elitists who want to make the common person sacrifice. But notice, the elitists will not sacrifice.

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