Comment on A chemical industry lobbyist is attempting to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The rich people live in non-polluted areas.

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  • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like that would be, and already is to some extent, both temporary and relative. Windblown microplastics don't really care if they end up in affluent areas.

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  you should really get rid of the assumption that the 1% have to deal with any of the problems they force on everyone else. rich people have their own separate existence. they live in rich-people-only neighborhoods. they park in rich-people-only parking lots. they go on vacation in rich-people-only parts of the world. their kids go to rich-people-only schools.

  in effect, no, they do not live on the same planet. they live on rich-people-only planet, and one of their core purposes in life is to keep themselves there, while keeping everyone else out.

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  • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, they might live a whole other cultural and social experience, but right now the world's ultra-wealthy are already planning on living out the rest of their years in underground bunker complexes. I really don't see how that's a better existence for them and their kids than making 3% less profit and giving just the tiniest shit about the planet.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they may have bunkers as a contingency but i doubt they think that existence is inevitable.

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    • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because it’s not only about how much I have, it’s about how much you people don’t have!

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• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “it won’t bother me, I’ll be dead before then” – boomers.

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