For climate change, I used to have the mental model that corporations, govenment, and consumers were blaming each other, passing the buck to each other for fixing climate change.

Now that corporations’ centuries-long, gradual takeover of government has suddenly kicked into high gear, we see how wrong that model was. Instead they’re immediately forcing the government to do even less to mitigate climate change.

I remember reading (might’ve been in The Undercover Economist) the proposal that the one industry that would have a lot to gain to lobby for climate regulation would’ve been the insurance industry. Obviously that didn’t happen.

(Also… “net zero”? We need net negative, even.)