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Higher oil prices also drive up the price of food around the world. In a more well off economies maybe higher oil prices cause people drive a little less. In lo
by merpnderp 10y ago
Higher oil prices also drive up the price of food around the world. In a more well off economies maybe higher oil prices cause people drive a little less. In lower end economies it just means more starvation and suffering. Without a suitable replacement, artificially driving up the global price of oil is literally killing and maiming (through malnutrition) people.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoSophie's choice: people are either going to die from climate change, or from policies making oil more expensive to consume to slow climate change. The question is as old as time: who is going to decide which cohort dies. And the answer is the entirety with the most might/force/influence, as always (unfortunately).
- merpnderp 10y agoThe IPCC says nearly all predicted deaths will happen in the future. In a future where by all current data, the world will be a richer more capable place. The future deats are mere guestimations as only the extreme limits of hubris would attempt to accurately predict the capabilities of people 50 or 100 years from now. Whereas the deaths from higher food prices are here and now. You could easily get on a plane and meet the people condemned to die from arbitrarily higher energy prices.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> In a future where by all current data, the world will be a richer more capable place. But climate change is already too far in progress to wait for a future where we're more capable. We're already capable enough, just need to funnel money to the right places.