Now most of the time coal or big industry gets the blame although we know that there are even some small parts the average guy can do to affect his own personal carbon-footprint impact.
Now most of the time big industry is blamed for putting profits ahead of their environmental obligations and there are many lawsuits brought on my the EPA and the like where big companies like GE have dumped toxins into rivers. We don't think GE is specifically evil and except for lower costs by dumping in rivers rather than in proper places it is not in their interest to affect climate but as their goals are profits there will always be a place for some regulation.
There is though another industry who seems to benefit greatly from the effect of a warmer planet...ice-cream trucks
Nobody is looking for a snow-cone when it's 30 degrees so it's not far fetched to think that longer warm months are good for business. I have to imagine that over the past few years with hotter summers, ice-cream trucks are making out like a casinos do when a bunch of asians come in.
Well if there is a link between green-house gases and warmer weather AND we assume that some of those can be man-controlled THEN is it crazy to assume that somebody whose entire business model depends on more warm days might try to affect it if he could?
Well if you don't believe me, just stand behind a Mr. Softee truck on a NYC street. Those things sit stationary idling for hours on end and I don't have to tell anybody who has ever stood behind one how much fucking heat those thing give off. I am completely convinced they are running industrial heaters under their shells as they quietly heat the NYC streets.
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