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Congratulations, you have made the most corporate bootlicker post here. And that's saying something.
by tekstar 7y ago
Congratulations, you have made the most corporate bootlicker post here. And that's saying something.
- manfredo 7y agoA pretty simplistic description of the situation, but not wholly untrue. Oil has naturally leaked out of the ground and ocean floor for millions of years [1]. Granted, man made oil spills are still bad for the environment as they release significant quantities of oil at once. 1. https://www.whoi.edu/oil/natural-oil-seeps https://www.whoi.edu/oil/natural-oil-seeps
- thinkingkong 7y agoTechnically not untrue isn’t a great argument. If someone stretched the other way and said its fine to fill the entire ocean with oil because its natural we’d find that equally absurd.
- airbreather 7y agoNot really seeing how you could get that at all from what I said, but sort of typical of the sort of surface thinking prevalent in most "save the planet" crusaders. There is no way in the world you didn't benefit from use of some kind of hydrocarbons yesterday, most indirectly, but entirely possibly a significant part directly. It's basically unavoidable. So how would you feel about paying 3 or 5 times for the price to reduce the chance of this happening by maybe a factor of 10? It is basically impossible to remove all risk, other than to not do it at all. I was actually having more of a dig at the "natural" supplements crowd, maybe it was too subtle for you. History is also informative, look at the Ixtoc 1 spill, which most people have never heard of before. BTW, having taken the moral high ground, what are you personally doing or working on to improve the current status quo? You might be surprised what I do.