That is funny coming from a propagandist for Big Oil.Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
And the point is that global corporations don't decide all the laws. They influence (through lobbying, patronage and donations) many of the big strategic government decisions, and some of the smaller and more specific policies, but not all.
That was my point. You have not engaged with it.
To go back to my earlier post, I do not believe that Sure Start or the Decent Homes Programme were influenced in any way by the WEF, Formula One or BP. I also doubt that Big Pharma is backing Democrat plans to invent a universal health care system or severely cap the astronomic cost of prescription drugs in the USA.
I'm sure Shell and Exxon-Mobile are working out how to maximise their profits under Green Energy plans - but they have spent the last 60-70 years (like tobacco and other similar sectors) doing their best to frustrate a move to renewables. Starmer will happily get into bed with them - but clean energy and corporate profits is a better outcome than dirty energy and corporate profits.
Whilst that's going on there will be people in the global labour, anti-imperialist and environmental movements working to socialise the savings and the benefits of that change. Not you and your co-'thinkers' but millions of others. That is the hope, and that is the reason to back marginal improvements even if they don't come with a complete transformation of the political, economic and social systems that dominate the world.
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