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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The recent movie "Merchants of Doubt" is well worth a watch on this. Essentially, the playbook here is lifted directly out of the tobacco industry's from 40+ years ago. Everyone knows the information will come out in full eventually, and everyone will eventually understand the full magnitude of it. So the game is to muddy the waters and delay that broad acceptance for as long as possible. Even some of the spokespeople are re-used.
Simply put, this cannot be a political issue. Politics immediately descends into tribalism. People are collectively too stupid to make these decisions. But there's just no way around it because of how decisions are made in modern democracies.
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Can Big Oil be sued like Big Tobacco was?
http://globalnews.ca/news/1722953/mu...ands-of-judge/
Can the Koch Brothers be charged with crimes against humanity?
http://blogs.law.widener.edu/climate...e-contrarians/
There are two definitions of crimes against humanity in international law that could apply to the campaign of the climate change contrarians. The first is “grave offences that are part of a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population,” and the second is “inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical harm.” (Brown, 2013)
It is not possible for a variety of reasons to charge the Koch brothers and the other contrarians in their vast network with crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But we could at least begin to call them by a name that is more appropriate for those who have committed crimes against humanity.