Highly unusual list includes 533 businesses and trade organisations

Highly unusual list includes 533 businesses and trade organisations

Donald Trump has drawn up a scorecard for corporate America, ranking companies based on their loyalty to his administration.

The highly unusual list ranks 533 businesses and trade organisations based on their efforts to champion the US president’s “one big beautiful bill”, according to reports.

Companies that have fared well deployed a variety of tactics – often trumpeting the benefits of an individual policy, such as Uber’s celebration of Mr Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.

The scorecard, which Axios said will aid decision-making on corporate requests, comes as part of Mr Trump’s “America First” agenda and protectionist policies.

  • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    We’re rapidly approaching several possible tipping points that will “rapidly” (over decades or a century) make many of the most populated parts of the world much less livable, disrupt agriculture on a global scale, cause mass die offs, disrupt water supplies and weather patterns.

    I agree with this statement. Those “tipping points” however can be walked back, by doing things like actually repairing the damage we’ve done, instead of just reducing the amount of damage.

    The only thing “saving” us is the uncertainty: we’re not good at predicting them yet (since they’ve never happened in the history of the earth) so we don’t know how desperate we need to be

    I can make one prediction with near 100% certainty: As long as we maintain out current economic model, human life on this planet will likely cease to exist within the next couple hundred years.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Those “tipping points” however can be walked back

      They really can’t. They’re called tipping points because they’re likely irreversible, in society terms.

      • if the Greenland ice sheet melts, raising sea level by 23 feet, nothing we can do will bring it back for longer than civilization may exist
      • if AMOC collapses, radically changing the climate of Western Europe, there’s nothing we can do to restart it
      • if melting permafrost or rainforest devastation enters a self-sustains collapse maybe that’s conceivable to halt but very unlikely.
      • if West Antarctic ice shelf collapses, how can any remediation make up for one of the driest climates on earth where even using ideal conditions it would take many centuries for snowfall to possibly be enough, then even more centuries for a glacier to extend a new ice shelf. And we have no way of creating those ideal conditions

      As we approach these tipping points we’re quickly running out of things we can do, and the scariest part is we can’t even predict when it’s too late and probably won’t until well afterword

      • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Most all of these can be prevented, and even reversed, if we: Drastically reduce our consumption based lifestyles, reforest places like the Amazon (Our planet’s lungs), and get creative with other methods (ie, algae cultivation on a large scale).

        But, these all require abolishing capitalism, in order to be done.