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> War in iraq? Why bother. I guess we take as a given we were there for cynical oil based reasons? > War in Ukraine? Just stop giving Russia fossil fuel money
by peteradio 4y ago
> War in iraq? Why bother.
I guess we take as a given we were there for cynical oil based reasons?
> War in Ukraine? Just stop giving Russia fossil fuel money
The oil/gas doesn't cease to have value under sanctions, at worst it can all be consumed internally to drive their war machine. Climate change isn't driving Russia to desire Ukraine, it just does.
> Climate change? Let’s just not.
The government we are cynical of now has the power to control climate and our cynicism vanishes?
- jonplackett 4y ago1) yes definitely. The only reason anyone in the west cares about the Middle East is the oil. 2) it they have less value, to the point you wouldn’t have to be a slave to the producers of energy. 3) even cynics can’t sell ice to eskimos. If fusion really did pan out and make energy abundant it doesn’t matter if they have lots of oil and gas. No one would need it. As many other comments have pointed out though, fusion seems kinda unlikely to actually do that, but arguing that even if it did it wouldn’t change anything is a bit pessimistic for me.