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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>BillK via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 12, 2021 5:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> BillK <pharos@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] totalitarian techniques<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 12:44, spike jones via extropy-chat<br>>>… We should be using market forces to do that. So far, markets haven’t chosen that as a high priority.<br>><br>> spike<br>> _______________________________________________<br><br><br>>…Fighting climate change has to be tackled at government level to pass<br>laws that apply to all companies.<br><br>>…But it is not going to happen. The next generation will have to<br>survive as best they can.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja. The fact that companies cannot compete if they spend their capital fighting climate change scales up to any company of any size. It isn’t a big leap of intuition to recognize that if a company is the size of a nation, that same principle still applies, and if we want to view nations as competing companies (they are, in a sense) then nations cannot compete with other nations if they spend their capital fighting climate change.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The biggest player in all this (China) isn’t playing, not even trying. They have no intentions of fighting climate change. Their company strategy is to out-compete the other nations economically with a long-range vision of taking over the African continent, replacing the people who live there now with their own, living with climate change.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>