[moosey]

Or everyone could stop pumping oil _right now_. Economics are great and all, but economics is an abstraction layer on top of production - and the economics that we use today are basically spaghetti code on top of production.

The largest issues if we were to stop oil production immediately wouldn't even be monetary, they would be ethical, as it would massively reduce food production and distribution.

Basically, Norway is working closer to the hardware when they stop oil production.

[mlthoughts2018]

I’m only discussing divestment. There are plenty of other things worth pursuing and Norway is doing well in many of them. I just think it’s important to get the story straight on divestment specifically.

[sgt101]

Good thought experiment.

We need a transition and repair story, not a "stop civilisation" story.

[astrodust]

People made huge sacrifices in World War II to stop an imminent threat. They stopped driving. They stopped leaving the lights on. They cut back on everything.

We don't have to do anything that extreme now, but give it another twenty years and we'll have to do a whole lot more than that.