‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants
‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants
Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms
Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms
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Reminds me of here in Oz, people were getting punched with what was called a “king hit”, basically some drunk idiot grabbing someone and hitting them hard enough to kill them.
Then the media started to relabel it a “coward punch” (which it really was) which caught on. This had a measurable impact on these idiots punching like that and the number of deaths went down.
Us people on the west coast of the Americas need to adopt this tactic.
We always had another word for it though: sucker punch. Also, where are the stats on it having a measurable impact? It was widely seen as a pretty lacklustre thing at the time. I’d argue the real impact was the massive increase is sentencing guidelines for king hits/coward punches that turned them into murder charges if they died from the hit.
In the same vein, we should be charging companies that are causing this impact to the climate. I’d say there’d be real change then.
That would be called a carbon tax, and Oz was too stupid there and took the fear mongering hook line and sinker :(
Ah nah i know about that, I meant actually charging them with actual crimes and throwing them in gaol
That would be entirely unreasonable, because the ideal is not zero carbon output, it's reducing carbon output to a sustainable level.