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by cdoxsey
2317 days ago
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The oil and gas industry is essential to the well being of billions of people. It's literally the fuel for the world’s economy. Without it we would have substantially less food, travel would be all but impossible, and the technology sector would grind to a halt. Eliminating the industry would cause harm on a scale the world has never seen. An entirely predictable and preventable catastrophe done in the name of a naive environmental absolutism. Maybe let’s come up with solutions that don’t require pushing millions of people into poverty because they can no longer heat their homes or grow their food. Also FWIW, the moral accountability argument here is pretty shaky reasoning. A great many people use Google products for evil. That doesn’t make Google morally responsible for it. |
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Evidence of this is present in the lobbying efforts funded to the tune of billions of dollars a year (by these industries) to ensure regulations don't get passed, subsidies don't reach green technology, and information is suppressed. This is evil.
No one is contesting the fact that we needed oil and gas to reach where we are today. We're just contesting the fact that we still need to be expanding these industries, which lobbyists are trying to do every single day.
> Maybe let’s come up with solutions that don’t require pushing millions of people into poverty because they can no longer heat their homes or grow their food.
Maybe let's come up with a solution that prevents inevitable mass migrations, famine, and wars. (This statement is just as fallacious as yours -- see, I can do it too.)