Will the oil companies attack the living hell of Vermont’s new law? Of course. Will the legislation survive the onslaught of law suits that Big Oil brings against it? Probably not.
But the point is that it’s the first attempt in the United States to internalize the externalities of burning hydrocarbons, i.e., prohibiting the fossil fuel boys from using the Earth’s atmosphere as their own private sewer.
Oil Companies May Soon Be Forced to Pay for the Long-Term Environmental Damage They’re Wreaking
I agree with what Ricky Gervais says here; I would only add that there are dozens of ways religion impinges on others.
In my view, the most common is that it impedes our implementing science in things like climate change mitigation. If you believe, as is explicit in the Book of Genesis, that “only God can destroy the Earth,” you have a good excuse to ignore the entirety of climate science.
99% of this totally incorrect.
But hey, who cares, right? There’s a huge market for disinformation, and I’m sure you were handsomely paid.
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I’ve always wondered what this means. Christian Science? But if you reject science and hand your diseases over to Jesus, why would you need health coverage in the first place?
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