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If you look at Sri Lanka right now, their society is completely falling apart not because of climate change, but because there is no oil. If you look at Saudi,
by narrator 4y ago
If you look at Sri Lanka right now, their society is completely falling apart not because of climate change, but because there is no oil. If you look at Saudi, they can't raise production, not because of climate change, but because there is no more oil. If you look at the war in Ukraine, the Russian ruble is the best performing currency of 2022, and the Russians are by all accounts not doing badly in the Ukraine war mainly because they have plenty of oil.
Climate change may show up and get us is a few years, or it may take longer. Running out of oil is starting now, we're already in the middle of it.
What's the deal with nobody talking about running out of oil and instead the focus on climate change? With the climate change narrative we get to the same place as the running out of oil narrative, but the only solution is to work together on alternatives. With the running out of oil narrative, the focus is on solutions, but it also becomes a war between nations for the remaining resources. We're seeing Germany revert back to coal now, for which there is more spare supply than oil.
I don't really have a solution here. Maybe we would have better ones if there were more clarity around what the actual situation is.