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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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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

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Study reveals how much carbon damage would cost corporations if they paid for their emissions
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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, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies.
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    See also: any other form of cancer.

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      Infinite growth, until you kill your host. In this case the host is the whole human population.

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        Honestly, the whole world.

        Will it recover? Maybe. Life is resilient.

        But we’ve already presided over a pretty quick mass extinction that is still ongoing.

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