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bilby commented on the word pollution paradox
"Johnson’s government is what warlord money buys. It could be seen as the perfect expression of the Pollution Paradox, a concept that I think is essential to understanding our politics. What this means is that the dirtier or more damaging an enterprise is, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it’s not regulated out of existence. As a result, political funding comes to be dominated by the most harmful companies and oligarchs, which then wield the greatest political influence. They crowd out their more accommodating rivals."
- George Monbiot, 'Caught in the Crossfire', https://www.monbiot.com/2020/11/27/caught-in-the-crossfire/
December 2, 2020