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This is why the only way to deal with climate change is countries with carbon reserves deciding to leave it in the ground. If they don't, there is so much dema
by Scarblac 9y ago
This is why the only way to deal with climate change is countries with carbon reserves deciding to leave it in the ground.
If they don't, there is so much demand for the stuff (burning it is so incredibly useful) that it'll all be burned.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoOr for those with wealth to buy those reserves and put mechanisms in place to inhibit the extraction of those petroleum resources.
- omeid2 9y agoUnfort, those in the position of power throughout the modern history has done the exact opposite.
- icebraining 9y agoEquador tried an interesting approach: "pays us and we won't extract oil". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasun%C3%AD-ITT_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasun%C3%AD-ITT_Initiative
- PietdeVries 9y ago"tried" indeed - because according to the wikipedia lemma covering the topic: However, in July 2013, Ecuador's president Rafael Correa's commission on the Yasuni-ITT Initiative's progress, the commission concluded that economic results were insufficient, leading Correa to scrap the plan on August 15, 2013. As of early 2014, campaign groups are still attempting to save Yasuní-ITT from oil activities.
- everyone 9y agoJudging from all of human history.. 'those with wealth' tend to not be the conscientious type. edit: Because, they are insulated from the bad repercussions of their harmful policies. Eg. Trafigura polluting the shit out of Ivory coast and poisoning people there. The CEO doesnt live there, he drinks bottled water and lives somewhere else in a gated compound. Making those destructive choices makes things better for them so they keep making them over and over. If a CEO made a conscientious choice then it would most likely be at the expense of short term profit, which would diminish the extent of his power, sort of self-selecting himself out of the decision making pool.
- tomxor 9y agoI agree, but I find it hard to beleive that isolation alone is enough to make them so unempathetic. I can only assume it has something to do with the human capacity to lie to one self, otherwise even acknowledging the truth would just be too uncomfortable. Makes me imagine some weird distopian future where all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug to prevent crimes against humanity :P
- jcranendonk 9y ago> all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug But who would force them?
- tomxor 9y agoWell it's a sci-fi distopian future so there would be some twisted pseudo dictatorship of course ... except for the one guy at the top who exempts himself from the drug. Ok this is basically "equilibrium" with a different brain mod isn't it :P
- tim333 9y agoOur future AI overlords, I imagine.