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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Now you are just complaining about capitalism. Why would Exxon spend hundreds of billions of dollars to develop an entirely new energy source, when they have a perfectly profitable one? Why is it their responsibility to point out all the flaws of their business model? If anything, it's a massive failure of governments. I never understood why oil companies take the blame for everything, when they are just functioning within the bounds of the system that exists for them.
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A perfectly profitable one that is killing the planet. I agree that government shoulder even more to blame than the corporations, however covering up information about the dangers of a product to make profit isn't just capitalism. We have many laws against that and how we expect corporations to act within a certain ethical boundary - see the Ford Pinto.
Governments and people have turned a blind eye to the oil companies wrongdoing because we want oil, we want convenience and we arn't prepared for the hardship. But governments are also held to the whim of the lobbyists. The companies are using their power and influence to slow down government action and keep profits going. They are pushing for laws that impede green energy while simultaneously pushing for increased oil production at a time where we KNOW what the catastrophic results are.
They gamed the system, they abused the system and they gaslit society. They aren't acting "within the system", they are controlling the system for their own ends.
They may not shoulder 100% of the blame, but the original claim that the user should be held to blame instead of the corporations is Ludacris.