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> Everything should be on the table, natural gas, fracking, nuclear. That's a misinterpretation. Those are global numbers. Those people dying are dying prima
by ajross 4y ago
> Everything should be on the table, natural gas, fracking, nuclear.
That's a misinterpretation. Those are global numbers. Those people dying are dying primarily from exposure due to housing shortfalls, it's not an energy distribution problem. And it's absolutely not a problem due to (as you seem to imply) inappropriate regulation of fuels, which isn't happening anywhere anyway.
If you want to keep these people alive then cut a check to a global housing construction NGO. Letting GE build a reactor or BP dill a well does nothing.
- SamPatt 4y agoBuilding reactors and drilling wells increases supply which decreases cost. Saying this wouldn't help is just false. Of course increased supply helps with shortages.
- ajross 4y agoCheap electricity doesn't help someone who doesn't have a house to heat. There is no electricity shortage in this scenario.
- SamPatt 4y agoA society in which energy is cheap is better able to help the homeless than one in which it is expensive. Same with food or any other necessity. Also, the mere existence of housing problems doesn't negate the point that cheap energy is immensely beneficial to human flourishing in general.
- Spooky23 4y agoTwo different problems that you need to separate to have a cogent argument. The fact that one person cannot heat their home has nothing to do with a person with no home.