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You can no more be “a bit” corrupt than you can be “a bit” pregnant.

They’d just pocket the monopoly and continue BAU. More profitable in the short term.

We're already dealing with effects so in this case we get both. Which I guess is what the oil companies want.

I guess it's like working at Facebook and Instagram and learning what the product does to young people. The cognitive dissonance must be profound to just keep thinking that 'steady as she goes' will be a fine approach. What's even crazier is that all of the people working in Oil, and Gas, and Coal industries, they have families that will be touched by climate change. Even the wealthy won't escape (See Californian wildfires.)

Facebook: we are connecting people.

Coal industry: we are heating people's homes.

I’m on board with corruption for the greater good. Giving Joe Manchin $1 billion and a yacht would be a bargain.