No one is in the way.
We should
Name them after the oil execs. “In tonight’s new the death toll climbs to 11,000 in the Darren Woods heat event…”
I urge everyone to go to the MET website and cast v their votes
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
I would worry it would make some of them weirdly proud and they would hope for the hi-score.
Also, name the great depressions/recessions after the one most responsible - The great trump depression.
If I own a toxic waste dump site, am I allowed to name it the Trump Dump? I’m not using the name from his “Brand,” but I’m naming it after a US president. Or is his side hustle going to send me a cease and desist letter?
Regardless of the legality of it, he’s 100% going to take you to court and try to bury you in legal fees. One of the few things dude can actually manage to do is weaponize the legal system.
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Not a bad idea. In the 1st Great Depression the homeless tents/settlements were called “Hoovervilles.”
I’ve been in a great Trump depression for a long, long time now…
If we’re talking about society-wide paradigm shifts, may I suggest we try putting executives in prison first?
or voting Green in most countries eg Australia, NZ, Germany, UK, Canada for example to move the overton window and get systemic policy change
what a great idea
We used to. Remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill? The BP oil disaster in the gulf.
Those weren’t climate events. Those were directly tied to the company.
Fair point.
Need a alphabetical list of names like hurricanes.
Amoco BP Chevron …
Or be more accurate and blame Shell and BP for your problems
I think we’ll be able to go through them all, unfortunately.
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We could name all extreme weather events after them. Hurricane Exxon, Cyclone Aramco, Storm BP.
We did this on Mastodon! Met office or something put out a form to submit names for a storm or summat and someone recommended suggesting names like Aramco and BP and a bunch of us did it. I don’t know if it got traction elsewhere, I live under a rock.
Problem is singling any one of them out is grounds for defamation.
I’ve seen the idea before. You don’t single one out, you do though the alphabet like they do with storm names. There’s plenty of companies to choose from at each letter so you can do different ones different years.
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of devastating heatwaves to go around
Is it defamation if it’s true? In a podcast about serial killers, it isn’t considered defamation either if an episode is about one specific serial killer, right?
It would be fun to see them take it to court and the judge rule against them. Assuming it wasn’t done American judge they’d bought of course.
H-h-h-h-h-HOLY SHIT. Sorry had to use a Unreal Tournament quote because that’s insane.
