Robert Hirsch
1 min readAug 27, 2020

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Nope. Nope. Nope. And you were so close. You even read one of your links incorrectly. Those 100 companies causing 71% of the emmissions? Those are primarily state run companies, or have been heavily facilitated by the state.

Even if you look at ExxonMobile. Do you think they would be providing cheap fuel if they had to pay for their exploration instead of tax payers? What about their cleanup? What about the pipelines? The bomb trains? Taxpayers lower the cost of all of these expenses. Further, governments lower their risk by limiting individual liabilty for the actions of the companies. The take property from people who are in the way of the pipelines, or roads. Heck the governments build more and more roads to facilitate the market for these companies.

Further, you left out the direct emmissions from governments themselves. The military, the multitude of buildings, the construction vehicles, the spy networks, the aircraft transit for politicians.

And you think government is going to be the way that this gets fixed? Its an utterly preposterous position, debunked by decades of evidence that the exact opposite is what is true.

I will listen to climate activists a lot more when they stat talking about putting extreme limitations on the powers and expenditures of governments. Until then, I can't take any of you seriously.

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Robert Hirsch
Robert Hirsch

Written by Robert Hirsch

Author, Maker, Father, Dreamer. Robert received his Ph.D. from RPI in Mechatronics. Since then, consumer devices, renewable energy, and now blockchain.

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