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  Conservatives would be happy to see this country burn as long as they can rule over the ashes. You’d think Covid dropping their numbers would have shown them they aren’t invincible… we all die
context: In other news the GOP is effectively a subsidiary of the oil and gas industry. >
  
  Always have been. >
  
  A fact so true they don’t bother to hide it. 
  “Drill baby drill” >
  
  
  “Maybe it’s weird for them, but I betcha many of my Republican colleagues on the Commerce Committee have environmental justice areas in their districts,” said DeGette.
  
  Sounds about right. >
  
  Republicans against Justice! >
  
  The GQP Ministry of Truth is working as expected >
  
  If anyone is confused, this has absolutely everything to do with lobbying and donations from companies oil companies, and chemical manufacturers like DuPont and Union Carbide, which continue to operate plants in areas of the country with rates of cancer 50-100 times the national average. >
  
  Conservatives are trying to protect the hierarchy, not the environment. They want to make sure the traditional of doing business is not disrupted. While they are aware of the dangers of climate change, they are relucant to implement a solution unless it is profitable to their interests and doesn't interfere with their business model. They will only take climate change serious once renewal energy outperforms fossil fuels. Which should be happening in about twenty or so years. >
  
  Environmental justice also refers to things like putting a smog producing factory or something that contaminates the water into poor neighborhoods so wealthy people don't have to feel the burden of their own actions. Then those communities get cancer, asthma, or other issues that keep them from gainful employment, successful schooling, and in poverty. Then, of course, the Gops call them welfare queens for needing assistance escaping the poison Republicans put into them in the first place. >
  
  I don't think the oil companies have thought this all the way through. How are they going to make money if most of human civilization has been destroyed by giant natural disasters? >
  
  That's a Q4 problem, all that matters right now are the Q2 numbers >
  
  They would have kept it in if it had helped the 1%. >
  
  Republicans are unjust so this is very on brand for them. >
  
  Honestly I think someone giving you cancer presents a moral argument for self defense via the 2nd amendment.