Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[a500lbgorilla]

I always thought I was cynical about people, but rilla and coccobill make me look like an optimist.



Do you really believe that corporations are this powerful and that individuals are this weak? You don't think the evidence would pile up pretty quickly that smokers are a hundred times more at risk for a hundred different medical conditions? Why do you think that the cig companies would have infinite power to control the conversation, given how unbelievably expensive that would end up being? Yes, they're going to market their product and down-play the risks, and they'll spend as much as necessary to maximize their image without cutting too much into their profits, but there will be limits to what they are capable of.

This isn't hypothetical, this is history. The evidence for global warming has always been huge*, it's only now reaching a point where the majority of people accept it. Another example is lead in gasoline.

Cig companies would control the conversation because they did. Oil companies would control the conversation because they did. It's not hard. Like I said before, people are no better than chance at telling between an expert and an expert fake.

edit *Even when TIME was talking about Scientists fearing a new ice age, the evidence for global warming was strong and was represented in the majority of peer reviewed publications of the time.