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CFCs was only a few small industries. CO2 is a lot of really big industries, so a whole lot more pushback and lobbying and fossil fuel propaganda.
Why is it a difficult concept of, "no earth, no profit"?
Because all the people that will lose profit will be dead by then so they don't care
Tragedy of the commons, benefit to an individual incentives a larger harm to everyone.
More like tragedy of capitalism, since it's the only system in world history where so called "tragedy of the commons" actually happens with any regularly, proven by the fact there were sucessfully managed Commons millenia old before capitalism ruined them and claimed they were always doomed from the start