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Hurricanes should be given corporate sponsorship labels (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a world with man made climate change, hurricanes should have sponsor labels like NASCAR.

“Hurricane Milton is brought to you by British Petroleum”.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There's no such thing as bad exposure, so no, they should not get free advertising for catastrophies they've caused.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

People who say that have never boycott something in their life.

If there was no bad publicity, PR firms would not exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Purdue pharmaceuticals got some pretty bad PR for the opioid crisis that got turned into settlement money, maybe we can finally use that model to get us some UBI as climate justice