According to Tamás Bauer, former SZDSZ politician, currently DK politician, Orbán's position expressed on Viktor Kossuth Rádio, according to which the big companies that cause climate change should primarily pay for it, and as a result, pocket serious profits, is ordinary demagoguery.

The description of a demagogue from the mouth of a DK is strange, to put it mildly, but his subsequent explanation is more aptly described as absurd. In his Facebook post, Bauer justifies his claim by saying that

"Today, large multi-companies are known to be mostly active in electronics, IT, and trade, and their locations are marked by factory chimneys that do not smoke, like large-scale industry a hundred years ago. The main sources of environmental pollution are to be found in agriculture, transport and the heating and cooling of buildings, i.e. activities in which we all play a role, since we eat, move and live. The "bureaucrats in Brussels " are certainly right when they say that everyone should be made interested in the transformation of agricultural, transport, heating and cooling techniques that can contribute to climate protection. Orbán's position is - as usual - ordinary demagoguery."

According to them, Bauer is either so uninformed or simply misunderstands the concept of "large companies". The distribution of environmental pollution can be measured with exact numbers, and only 10 percent of the population is affected. Let's also note that the countries that are most vocal about radical emission reductions are those that have not only not reduced their emissions in recent decades, but have increased them.

What Bauer writes would essentially mean that multis travel only in IT companies. Coca Cola only produces bits, agriculture is also owned by the climate-polluting peasant, and only the bus driver profits from transportation. In fact, this is demagoguery cut with a dagger, and I am surprised that at the end of its train of thought, it does not declare that the UN basically recognizes every plastic bottle island floating in the ocean as an independent state. Or is it not a coincidence that he left out of his list the large companies that transport unhealthy "sugar water" around the world, and whose bottles end up in our waters?

But other "big companies" were left out of the list, who are obviously innocent lambs, and even the thought that environmental pollution could arise in connection with them is terrifying. Still, what a thing it would be to accuse the giants of the food industry - who, in addition to their environmental destruction, are the main responsible for the allergic diseases of the 21st century -, raw material processors, fertilizer manufacturers, car manufacturers, rubber companies, battery manufacturers, oil companies, steel companies, and so on.

Well, what did we expect? When it comes to maiming little people, DK and its supporters have always been at the forefront. In the case of Bauer, this is inherently von Haus aus…

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