[drivebycomment]

By bean counters you mean environmentalist / climate activists convincing politicians ? A common meaning of bean counters - who only cares about money - would never do that.

And if you think general populace in the first world countries will suffer through consistent blackout, I think you are utterly and completely mistaken.

[macinjosh]

And I think you are wrong too. So what? I’m in my thirties and the climate change was supposed to end the world about 4 different times and now and nothing has happened.

It’s about power and control, period.

[macinjosh]

Do you read anything, like, at all? Finance plays a _huge_ role in the climate change machinery. Carbon credits, ESG, regulations and more. Thems the bean counters.

[drivebycomment]

Your original assertion:

> the bean counters force everyone to only use electricity for energy.

In carbon credit or esg or other regulations, finance / bean counters serve a means to the end, not the primary motive. Thus, I am disagreeing with this sentence, since bean counters are not who would be the primary movers to make this happen, but rather just an accessory / mean to the end. I.e. bean counters of a typical meaning would generally oppose such.

> Do you read anything, like, at all?

You may want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you haven't yet. For what it's worth, I like economics and so do read, and I consider myself a proponent of the carbon tax.