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Environment & Energy

tclambert

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4. Hey, chill, it's all okay. If the massive profits oil companies make causes us to go extinct . . .

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:37 PM

Dec 2013

well then, no one can sue them for damages afterwards. (Let's see, what's your legal liability for extincting all life on the planet? Why, it's zero!)

Hold up a moment. Does that imply the oil companies' best strategy is to deliberately push us to extinction? If their business model destroys all coastal cities, that would cost them a fortune in damages and court costs . . . but only if enough people survive to file the mother of all lawsuits. Hmmm.

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