• SCB@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Climate activists want to, among other things, pass extremely unpopular carbon taxes as they’re the most serious effort toward cutting fossil fuels usage

    Extremely unpopular ideas that inevitably favor certain products are not always moves to sell those products, is the point

    It’s pretty reasonable to assume no one outside the UK knows much about Sunak’s history with handouts to friends.

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          2 years ago

          People who don’t understand we need to break our addiction to petroleum based fuel. Also People who make money off of petroleum based products.

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            2 years ago

            I think you overestimate the size of these two groups. The group of people who care more about their own financials is likely a lot larger.