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The world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it (phys.org)

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[–] empiricism@sustainability.masto.host 2 points 2 years ago

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The "business as usual" approach reminds me of the saying "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

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