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Thank you for the great comment. It is astonishing to me how professional people from the oil industry generally were in my previous interactions. Such a nice

Thank you for the great comment. It is astonishing to me how professional people from the oil industry generally were in my previous interactions. Such a nice change of pace compared to many others.

lobotryas 6y ago
Why would they be unprofessional? Because media demonizes the industry as destroying the Earth and raping the environment? Petroleum engineering/science is very hard; people don’t make it through that by the seat of their pants.
- thrwaway96 6y ago
  Perhaps it's possible to destroy the earth and still be nice on the Internet? The two aren't mutually exclusive..
  - godzillabrennus 6y ago
    No one is “destroying the earth”. The earth will be here long after we have pumped enough carbon in the air to change the climate and kill ourselves. We are just killing ourselves slowly. Kind of like running a car in an enclosed garage but at a massive scale. We can build carbon extraction plants to reverse this. We just need to wake up as a species to the issue at hand and stop saying the world is ending.
    - samatman 6y ago
      If someone is pissing on my floor, I might tell them to stop destroying my house. If they drunkenly retort that, at most, they're slowly destroying the floorboards, and that the frame and roof will happily go on without them... I'm still kicking them out.
      - irishcoffee 6y ago
        And then they move on..., and then you move on..., and the earth keeps spinning. Humans will never destroy the earth, just ourselves.
        ramblerman 6y ago
        At best this is like a teenager trying to be deep. At worst it's just nihilistic. We get your point, but for those of us not assuming the destruction of humanity, there are still choices we can make.
  - lobotryas 6y ago
    Why did you create a throwaway for such an innocuous comment? Are you very afraid of downvotes?
- ip26 6y ago
  With all the money to be made you might imagine the industry staffed by colorful get-rich-quick characters.
  - irishcoffee 6y ago
    This is the silliest thing I’ve read all day. Did you read what you wrote?

Thank you for the great comment. It is astonishing to me how professional people from the oil industry generally were in my previous interactions. Such a nice change of pace compared to many others.

lobotryas 6y ago

Why would they be unprofessional? Because media demonizes the industry as destroying the Earth and raping the environment? Petroleum engineering/science is very hard; people don’t make it through that by the seat of their pants.

thrwaway96 6y ago
Perhaps it's possible to destroy the earth and still be nice on the Internet? The two aren't mutually exclusive..
- godzillabrennus 6y ago
  No one is “destroying the earth”. The earth will be here long after we have pumped enough carbon in the air to change the climate and kill ourselves. We are just killing ourselves slowly. Kind of like running a car in an enclosed garage but at a massive scale. We can build carbon extraction plants to reverse this. We just need to wake up as a species to the issue at hand and stop saying the world is ending.
  - samatman 6y ago
    If someone is pissing on my floor, I might tell them to stop destroying my house. If they drunkenly retort that, at most, they're slowly destroying the floorboards, and that the frame and roof will happily go on without them... I'm still kicking them out.
    - irishcoffee 6y ago
      And then they move on..., and then you move on..., and the earth keeps spinning. Humans will never destroy the earth, just ourselves.
      - ramblerman 6y ago
        At best this is like a teenager trying to be deep. At worst it's just nihilistic. We get your point, but for those of us not assuming the destruction of humanity, there are still choices we can make.
- lobotryas 6y ago
  Why did you create a throwaway for such an innocuous comment? Are you very afraid of downvotes?
ip26 6y ago
With all the money to be made you might imagine the industry staffed by colorful get-rich-quick characters.
- irishcoffee 6y ago
  This is the silliest thing I’ve read all day. Did you read what you wrote?