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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Simialrly, when Branson talks of donating huge sums to tackle climate change I can't help but think his motivation is for us to think his Virgin empire is 'nice'.
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Yeah, sort of like Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and then started the Nobel Foundation.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Global Change has thus become a 'nice' issue. Unfortunately, for it to become anything more it's going to have to start telling a few more 'inconvenient' and uncomfortable truths than the likes of Gore, Cameron and Branson currently seem to be willing to deliver - as those who believe saving the planet means little more than recycling their baked bean cans probably want to hear.
I still feel that there are more troubling issues right now than climate change, but if we are to tackle it, it needs to be done with conviction, rather than as a plea for political and commercial popularity.
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Yes, the most important issue before us is to eliminate the inherent corruption in politics.