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Paying damages for the climate change pollution they produce would cost corporations 44 percent of their profits, study shows
NBC News ^ | August 25, 2023 | By Seth Borenstein

Posted on 08/25/2023 2:53:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Leaning Right

Climate Change Pollution, or CCP. Coincidence?


21 posted on 08/25/2023 3:13:36 PM PDT by Right Brother
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22 posted on 08/25/2023 3:17:10 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Throw in DEI and other social justice damages, and the number would be 100%.

Which, is the idea.


23 posted on 08/25/2023 3:17:38 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Hildy

They can threaten to fine you, but they rarely ever do. The only question you are required by law to answer is how many people live at this residence. I had a census taker threaten to get the sheriff if I didn’t fill out their nosy form. I told him to go ahead and told him how many people resided at my address. I never saw him again.


24 posted on 08/25/2023 3:17:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: Hildy

I answered only the number of people in my house.

Nothing else.


25 posted on 08/25/2023 3:18:08 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL, it’s their CUSTOMER FAULT!!!

they’re the one’s buying products, right?

so just put big CLIMATE CHANGE TAX stickers on goods telling them just where the price increases come from...

see how that plays


26 posted on 08/25/2023 3:19:29 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is such an obvious case of the logical fallacy called “begging the question”. They take it as an established fact that carbon dioxide is a climate-changing pollutant. No such thing has been (or can be) proven.


27 posted on 08/25/2023 3:29:07 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think we should start with ALL Media and Entertainment companies, then mandate they use 100% renewable energy free of fossil fuels for every last thing they do.


28 posted on 08/25/2023 3:37:18 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

woohoo!

a brand new revenue stream for fedgov

who didnt see that coming?

when is the exhale tax coming?


29 posted on 08/25/2023 3:39:35 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How the HELL do you calculate “damages”?

This idea of accounting for “externalities” has been around for five decades or more. It never works. It’s supposed to account for the “social costs” of a business.

Their scores of stupid climate models are all over the map in their predictions. Take their models back in time a few years and NOT ONE of them predicted where we are today.

If warming is true, do they account for far fewer people freezing to death? Reduced winter heating bills? Higher agricultural yields due to CO2 and temperatures? Less starvation? Do they account for the loss to society of precious resources directed toward wasteful and unreliable “green” energy? Do they account for the millions of people who will die with unreliable electricity?

I’ll bet their Cost/Benefit model covers a zillion costs and not one benefit.


30 posted on 08/25/2023 3:42:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: Hildy

As several others have pointed out, all you have to give the census is the number of people living there. I have amused myself for decades by avoiding giving even that. What you describe sounds more like the American Community Survey, which is even more intrusive. They try to bluff people into thinking they have to answer it or pay a fine, but that’s BS. Just throw it away, and if anyone ever asks, say you never got any such thing.


31 posted on 08/25/2023 3:47:54 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“supposed” climate change. 🙄


32 posted on 08/25/2023 4:00:45 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DoughtyOne

THOSE DISPOSABLE DIAPERS TAKE 500 YRS.


33 posted on 08/25/2023 4:03:59 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Hildy

I don’t know anyone who answers any questions on a census or anything else but how many people live in the residence-that is all they need-or require-as for the rest, the answer is a simple no es su asunto-or, in the vernacular-f*** you and the horse you rode in on...


34 posted on 08/25/2023 4:14:18 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: DoughtyOne; All

Does anyone have 4K photographs of a carbon footprint. Is it a size 8M, or larger?


35 posted on 08/25/2023 4:35:08 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What nonsense. Carbon Dioxide is a constant 3-4% of air. A fluctuation of a few million parts is trivial.


36 posted on 08/25/2023 4:36:43 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Carbon dioxide is NOT POLLUTION.


37 posted on 08/25/2023 4:51:56 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Try 0.04 %


38 posted on 08/25/2023 4:53:16 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: joshua c

I’ve been saying that for 3 decades! skinny people have less to worry about than larger folks because we don’t breath as deeply so our exhaled carbon tax should be minimal. “save money...lose weight” will be the new leftist mantra along with “eat bugs, you’ll lose enough to pay less exhaled carbon tax”. coming to a country near you.


39 posted on 08/25/2023 4:58:52 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: beethovenfan

Sorry ... forgot the .0.


40 posted on 08/25/2023 7:07:27 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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