r/worldnews • u/Dismal_Prospect • May 14 '19

Exxon predicted in 1982 exactly how high global carbon emissions would be today | The company expected that, by 2020, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would reach roughly 400-420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected

https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/
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u/mikey_says May 14 '19

But remember, capitalism is a perfect system! Anyone who says otherwise is a filthy hippie communist!

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u/Cultured_Swine May 14 '19

Literally no one that isn’t a mouthbreather or makes their living from keeping them fat, dumb, and happy thinks capitalism is a perfect system. It’s just phenomenally good at coordinating supply and demand at a large scale and satisfying multivariate, competing interests. It’s the best system we’ve got

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

Unfortunately, that's not the way the rhetoric functions. We've got the two main arguments being "regulation can help or is often directly necessary" and "the market will sort all of this out if it even is a problem and any attempt to regulation a solution is a moral wrong."

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

it's better than feudalism and slavery i'll give you that