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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months ago

Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord

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Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months ago
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Billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation would fund the UN climate change agency after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement.…
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    Which just goes to show how easily we could fix this if billionaires paid their goddamn taxes

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    Great. Just what we needed. More billionaires holding the keys to government agencies.

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    Fund them to do what? The US isn’t going to apply their emissions standards and we’re single-handedly doing 12% of the global gross emissions total despite being 4% of the population.

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      Easy. Fund bombs, then bomb the US into oblivion. No more pesky emissions or rising fascism to worry about!

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    Lol, Bloomberg never even finished paying his campaign staff last time I checked, this ain’t any kind of rescue.

    "It was read off a script from HR, and then it was like, ‘Goodbye, you can hang up now,’ " she said in an interview. “It was a low blow. I felt very used and very kicked to the curb, after all that I had given to the campaign in the short time that I did work for it.”

    Asked how he feels now about the assurances he made as a recruiter to potential staffers, Jethwani said, “Mike borrowed my credibility and abused it in that moment.”

    https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826041256/mike-borrowed-my-credibility-and-abused-it-fired-bloomberg-campaign-workers-spea

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