ScienceCommunicator<p>Why are (most) governments doing so much to cause a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>? Why are many people more interested in making <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> than making the environment less polluted? (& all the rhetoric that goes with that)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutocracy</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocrats</span></a> are the appropriate, general, why that is</p><p>In a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a>, the rich use their wealth to influence or control political decisions. This, contrasts with a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, where each person's vote is supposed to count equally</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCorruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a></p>