Heat damage means no trams will run in Leipzig until early Monday morning as temperatures soar across Germany, breaking new records. Leipzig Transport Authority (LVB) has suspended tram services until...
The short sightedness of capitalist development is incredible.
Shall we transition away from fossil fuels to prevent extreme heat events? No, that would hurt this quarter’s profits.
Okay, so, can we harden society against the extreme heat events that are going to happen because we have chosen to not transition away from fossil fuels? Also no! That would hurt this quarter’s profits.
It’s a municipally owned company so not that much care for this quarters profit on that front, just at least 30 years of going “well sure climate change is real but surely not now” when they contract out the track building
A municipally owned company within the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. They still think in terms of fiscal quarters.
So, they think “well sure climate change is real but not this fiscal quarter” and then they just keep doing that every fiscal quarter until the railroad melts.
The short sightedness of capitalist development is incredible.
Shall we transition away from fossil fuels to prevent extreme heat events? No, that would hurt this quarter’s profits.
Okay, so, can we harden society against the extreme heat events that are going to happen because we have chosen to not transition away from fossil fuels? Also no! That would hurt this quarter’s profits.
It’s a municipally owned company so not that much care for this quarters profit on that front, just at least 30 years of going “well sure climate change is real but surely not now” when they contract out the track building
A municipally owned company within the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. They still think in terms of fiscal quarters.
So, they think “well sure climate change is real but not this fiscal quarter” and then they just keep doing that every fiscal quarter until the railroad melts.