The inability of the world's wealthiest government to solve any problems with well-documented solutions is the best sign we have that they don't wish to solve these problems.
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These aren’t even hard solutions! I get why some rich people are resistant to a lot of the changes we need to solve climate change, but for this? It’s easy and almost certainly an overall positive economic investment!
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 pm • 45 3 • view
Katie they want us to suffer and die
aug 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Key word is suffer If we kept everything else about the lifestyle of the 99% exactly the same, with exactly the same amount of money and power going to the 1%, but the 99% just had 3 fewer respiratory illnesses per year, the 1% would feel like they’d lost something
aug 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
That’s X amount of $$$ that some wealthy asshole isn’t pocketing. So… yeah that’s why
aug 29, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
The government just refuses to invest in people. There are so many programs that would bring in not just more economic activity than they cost, but often more tax money than they cost, but we refuse to do them *because* it would make people's lives better.
aug 29, 2025, 2:51 pm • 3 0 • view
But if they give us this, it breaks the narrative that government is unable to help people I’m convinced that this explains why the majority of mitigations were yanked away so abruptly: people beginning to see that not helping was/is a *choice* not an inevitability
aug 29, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone once said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Cleaning indoor air would be a net monetary savings and prevent suffering. My doctor's office has air filtration in every treatment rm
aug 29, 2025, 3:06 pm • 17 2 • view
Yes! <3 What we ALWAYS did in Sweden - working upstream, with public investments that really paid off! The worlds LONG TERM overall CHEAPEST government, for that size of country. But then we had neolib/con NPM policy forced upon us by SHORT TERM deregulated international unfair competition. :p
aug 29, 2025, 5:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Just like when big companies lower prices unsustainably for a while to starve out smaller competitors. :p Really, the smaller ones should just get compensated by the gov when that happens, easier to decide than saying no to a giant, and then well see how fun it gets to bleed money for nothing.
aug 29, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view