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Dieg_1990 t1_j23fkq6 wrote

Reply to comment by Fickle-Presence6358 in Exxon sues EU in move to block new windfall tax on oil companies by davetowers646

Causing and funding are two very different terms

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Fickle-Presence6358 t1_j23gal7 wrote

But INDIRECTLY funding would apply to practically every business and individual.

You fill your car up? Indirectly funding climate change. Pay for heating? Indirectly funding climate change.

This isn't saying that they shouldn't add more taxes to those oil companies. But they're pretty directly funding climate change, whereas the rest of the world is indirectly funding it.

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