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Alaska sold it’s soul to O&G industry in exchange for a yearly dividend for each of it’s residents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund https
by xyst 6y ago
Alaska sold it’s soul to O&G industry in exchange for a yearly dividend for each of it’s residents.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
Would have been nice if Alaska recognized climate change decades ago.
- smt88 6y agoEconomic insecurity makes people shortsighted, especially when O&G was exerting enormous political and scientific influence to deny climate science.
- Udik 6y ago1/3 of all jobs in Alaska are provided by the oil and gas sector. How much climate change do you think is needed to balance the cumulative benefits of oil extraction in the last 50 years?
- adrianN 6y agoYou make it seem as if the cumulative benefits would disappear if we stopped producing greenhouse gases. A better question would be to ask how much climate change would balance out any additional benefits we receive from continuing our current path as opposed to investing a sufficient amount of money into the transformation to a more sustainable energy economy.