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In 2001, Philip Morris argued that smoking was economically beneficial, because smokers die early, saving the government money on pensions.

Today, I'm writing how that same logic -harm as savings, disaster as an inconvenient cost—migrated from Big Tobacco to Big Oil.

From cancer to climate collapse, the strategy hasn’t changed: deny, delay, deflect, and profit.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/death-as-savings-disaster-as-profit?r=1qy42b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false