| > No responsible person would want to end this industry today, so why are we demonising everything and everybody connected with it. A 'climate crisis' (we should really stop calling it climate change) caused by anthropogenic emissions of hydrocarbons was a known fact of science by as far back as 1956. [0] The Petro-chemical industry, namely Exxon actively worked to descredit and created paid-for research to manufacture a narrative against this. [1] All members of the industry have fought against every single piece of regulation that hit their bottom line. People have absolutely every right to demonize the Petro-chemical industry complex. I agree that there is no other tech that has the energy density of gasoline, but it should have been reserved for aviation and maybe transport in remote locations but not much else. We are dependent on fossil fuels because we have geared all our industry and supply chain to use them. With as much lobbying and regulations in the opposite direction our course could have been different. Reminder that globally, air pollution accounts for about seven million premature deaths a year [2] That is pretty much an avoidable Covid pandemic yearly, every single year of our lifes. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/1956/10/28/archives/science-in-revie... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont... [2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/air-poll... |