| >And if we accidentally make the planet nicer for everyone by cleaning up This is for sure happening. The huge push to electric cars for example is because we must get off oil. Not because of climate change but rather practicality. We have ~50 years of oil left. Today people are driving around in 20 year old rust buckets. Those people aren't buying EVs until they have had a good time depreciating. So we're decades from true adoption. Long before that we are going to have oil prices skyrocket due to scarcity. Iran is talking nuclear deals because they ran out of oil. Or at least oil they can access. More importantly, even russia and china are siding with the usa and eu saying iran is the one in need and needs to change. It's hard to predict what is about to come about their nuclear talks. Afterall, Iran is basically in an economic depression right now. Their inflation is trucking around 50% annual. Their prime lending rate is ~18%. This is what happens post-oil if you haven't moved your economy off of oil. >and having the rich spread the wealth and caring about others.... Are they not? The rich effectively pay for the government. The net-benefits to the non-rich are greater than they pay in taxes. The rich are who pay for everything and are spreading their wealth. >oh wait, this is driven from countries with a lower value on human life so I guess this explains it.... The poor person in those undeveloped parts of the world arent even driving 20 year old rust buckets. They are operating with like 2 cycle motors that barely function. The sooner we move away from oil, the less likely there's a huge economic fall out for others later. |