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We should imprison and confiscate the property of all leaders, past and present, corporate and political, who have twaddled their thumbs about climate change. They are all genocidal bastards.

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(A Just World) Hang’em High

In a just world, all the leaders responsible for doing nothing (including corporate leaders) would be hung high and all their property confiscated (including that given to relatives and friends)....

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Ian Welsh

@iwelsh

Aug 5, 2018

lol. He was still one of the most effective genociders ever. :) But I've argued in the past that a lot of what he did was good. It's rare that someone great is entirely bad.

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Ian Welsh

@iwelsh

Aug 5, 2018

If we'd gone that way we would have had the "super analog" world as one of my friends called it. Enough expenditure on solar and so on and we'd have had cheaper than coal solar etc... by the mid 90s. Absolutely insanely genocidal, we were.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Aug 5, 2018

With all the neo-Malthusians, I wonder if we won't see someone try to one-up old Genghis with an engineered plague. The amount of population-level targeting you could do with engineered pathogens a decade ago was already terrifying. No telling what's brewing in a lab somewhere.