Murderers act in their best interest, doesn’t make it right. These psychopaths need new laws against them. Their company profits do not have greater importance than the planet and everything that lives on it.

Yeah, that’s actually what the lawsuit was about.

It wasn’t about them hurting the environment, but about them hurting investors’ profits.

By hurting the environment and not investing in green energy they are getting huge short term gains (which are reflected on their bonuses), but they hurt the long term profits of the company as a green energy strategy is now more profitable for the long term.

And thats why they might even win, not because they are damaging the world, but because they are hurting stockholder profits while doing so.

"We may have irreversibly destroyed the climate, but look on the bright side! We created a lot of value for our shareholders!"

I'm pretty sure companies do not have any duty to the world at large codified in law besides profit maximization for shareholders and not breaking existing environmental and safety regulations, so besides a tiny PR hit this is going nowhere.

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Yes, all of that. This is the corporate bottom line, as usual. Profit protection. I don't think things will change unless there are meaningful, deterrent consequences, and for corporations that translates to financial consequences.

One excuse that corporations use to skirt the law is "complied with their legal duties". That's always so infuriating. That is a core problem, the legislative framework that allows loopholes and get out of jail free cards. That needs serious change.

The legal basis of the suit has nothing to do with the World and everything to do with profits. It's reasonable to respond to what's relevant to the thing being discussed.