• @[email protected]
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    467 months ago

    The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, argues that the costs of such green initiatives outweigh their benefits, suggesting that they impose unnecessary economic burdens (Heartland Institute, 2017).

    Guess some people see everything in a cost-profit margin only.

    • Rozaŭtuno
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      387 months ago

      Guess some people see everything in a cost-profit margin only.

      Especially when it’s convenient. I’m sure they would happily look the other way if you showed them the economic burdens of having a car-centric society.

      • @chuckleslord
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        37 months ago

        Nah, big auto has bigger pockets than the bike lobby. Plus, murica

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          Auto industry manipulation of government is a big part of the reason the US has such awful, car-centered infrastructure.

      • @Delusional
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        37 months ago

        And thinking that way about everything is obviously the wrong way to go about life and will end up failing.

    • @Aux
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      187 months ago

      Being European, there are plenty of profits to be made by switching to bikes. Well, unless you’re a petrol station, fuck you then.

    • @[email protected]
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      77 months ago

      Anything the Heartland Institute publishes should never be treated as anything but toilet paper.

      • @crystalmerchant
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        7 months ago

        Same goes for any and all think tanks

        They’re all horseshit perversions that exist to push out mountains of academic-seeming material to legitimize whatever positions their funders want to legitimize to advance their interests

    • @kautau
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      57 months ago

      See Slavery (3500 BC)