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So it isn't really about the climate or the environment for you...it is about sticking it to those who have too much according to you.




I don't fear them....I am glad that they are who they are.  I am not the sort who cares to take the risk of owning my own business and growing it to the point that it not only takes care of me, but takes care of other people who work for me.  I don't want that sort of responsibility...and I am not jealous of their success.





No...our corrupt government is responsible for the degradation of our environment...unfortunately, government employment doesn't attract the best and brightest...all to often, it attracts morally corrupt scumbags who can be bought and sold by anyone with the means to do so...a responsible government, would impose draconian penalties on polluters...punishments so harsh that only the most stupid would take the risk.




No, but it is very often the poor who make the raw materials for jet aircraft....and it is very often the poor who do the manual labor required to maintain airports, etc...it is the poor who manufacture the raw materials for yachts...and the relatively poor who maintain them...ditto for cars, and trains...and practically anything else you care to name...whatever the product, it is proabably the poor who labor to provide the raw materials...then a slightly more wealthy class takes those raw materials and makes a product from them...then a slightly more wealthy class employs those products to begin the process of producing consumer products..and on it goes....stick it to the guy who employs those people and he usually finds that he can charge more for the product, and perhaps make do with fewer employees.  Your sort of thinking hurts the very people who can least afford to be hurt financially.




Again...myopic, unthinking, knee-jerk jealousy....they are the people who make our economy possible...hurt them and you hurt the economy...I know you can't really think that deeply because of your jealousy...but alas, that is how it is.




You can't see any further than the car that you wish you could afford...you can't see the miner who dug up the ore to make that car...or the smelter who processed the ore into raw steel, or aluminum...or the people who make machine parts...or make electrical wire..or plastic products, or leather, or wood that is required as basic material to begin making that car...you can't see the people who are employed putting parts together to sell to the auto manufacturers...you can't see the people who actually build the car...the car doesn't cost 100K because the raw materials are so expensive....the car costs 100K because the people who did all the work required to provide materials, process materials, make parts, and assemble parts had to be paid...




Same is true for that luxury to which you are so jealous...you can't see all the regular people who earn their daily bread producing the raw and finished products necessary for someone to purchase the yacht...or take the cruise...what happens to those people if you "stick it" to the rich guy so hard that he decides to not purchase the yacht...or take the cruise?  How do those people who work to make such things available or possible earn a living then?




You think those refrigerators would ever get built if some fat cat didn't pony up the money to build the means of production?...then take the risk that someone would even want to buy his refrigerator..stereo...or whatever he happens to be in the business of making?  Your jealousy of the rich has blinded you to the reality of how an economy works...you want to see what your sort of thinking produces?...look to the old soviet union...




Stop pretending to give a squat about the climate or the environment and be adult enough to simply admit that you are jealous of those who have what you don't and in your bitterness, all you really want is to hurt them without regard to the fact that those who you end up hurting are those who can least afford to support your bitterness.


Calling yoruself open mind is an ironic joke...your mind is so closed off with bitterness and jealousy of people who have things you don't that you can't...and won't see that your wish to hurt them hurts people who perhaps have far less than you...and you would see them taxed into bankruptcy if you could without the least regard to the legions of people who would be left unemployed...perhaps even yourself.


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