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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21661331
A new analysis from The Washington Post reveals that just 50 megadonors are responsible for $1.5 billion in campaign cash for the 2024 presidential cycle.
Imaging putting all that money into something useful like against the climate crisis.
This is functionally spending money on the climate crisis, on the side of the crisis.
Oil Industry to Trump: We’ll give you a billion dollars if you fuck up the planet even more when you’re in office
Trump: Yea
Source: Literally every news organization in the US
Source: Trump himself, when he constantly repeats “Drill, baby, drill.”
He unironically asked them to pay him. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.html
Imagine the return on investment.
a sustainable planet on which you can continue to exploit the workforce and customers, a capitalistic dream!