• hayvan@piefed.world
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    19 days ago

    Also also corporations fought the science for about a decade until safer alternatives were developed.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Proof that corporations will fuck over the entire planet and its entire population and all the animals and plant life just to make mOnEy during their lifetime. Selfish as FUCK.

      • Sparrow_1029@programming.dev
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        19 days ago

        We need to start calling this corborate leaders, or finding a way to indicate it’s the people in charge of the corporations. We’ve been using the aggregate term “corporations” because of conditioning. I know generally we all mean “board of directors” or “shareholders”. But making it common to use some term to indicate “the people in charge”–or just name them in particular–maybe gives us a real target instead of an amorphous boogeyman of “corporations”? I don’t know specifically how to achieve this though…

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          Is it a few bad individuals, or the entire concept of a corporation?

          If I dumped barrels of pollution into the river myself as an individual, then I’d be arrested. But if I hide behind a corporate veil and pay someone else to do it, then nobody gets arrested, and my fine is below the environmental cost.

          Corporations are inherently evil. If they weren’t, then they’d just pay for liability insurance like a doctor does. The whole reason they exist is to legally avoid the personal responsibility you suggest. Peacefully protesting outside their houses isn’t enough.

      • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        It isn’t even about the money, it’s about the power and the game. They’re addicted to the pursuit of power and corporate structures feed that addiction.

  • xia@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    I forget where I saw this, but apparently “the hole” is in the polar regions… that get less direct sunlight… and therefor produce less ozone.