• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    1 day ago

    I think climate change mitigation can be the next scam after AI. Once AI bubble bursts they will start looking for new investments and I think climate change is ready to start generating profits. People are desperate enough to start investing money in things that will limit effect of climate change. Who will profit? Corporation that will work on those projects. Anything space related (solar panels in space, geoengineering) will require Space X/Blue Origin. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are already invested in nuclear fusion and modular reactors. Tesla is an energy provider. Any CO2 sequestration projects will require new startups, obviously backed by the same corporations. My guess is very soon we will see governments paying those companies to solve the problem they created. Even more money will be pumped to the 1%. It went form “climate change isn’t real”, to “climate change isn’t caused by humans”, to “it is caused by humans but nothing can be done about it”. Next step will be “we can fix it if you pay us”.

      • Pussycuntisseur@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 day ago

        A good reminder of the definition of a parasite is it cannot live without a host. These corporations and capitalists can’t live without us but we can live without them which makes them a parasite.

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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          7 hours ago

          Yep. Crying about the world no longer having billionaires would be like holding a funeral for a tapeworm.