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As Europe is demonstrating right now, being green comes with significant consequences, which mostly fall on the poorest. Far better to provide incentives to sw

• Kim_Bruning 4y ago
  As Europe is demonstrating right now, in their case using fossil fuels means being prone to blackmail by dictators, and worse: subsidizing some of those same dictators to wage war against Europe. Like so many people, the nations of the EU thought they still had time. Now, belatedly, European governments see it as a direct national security imperative to switch to non-fossil sources as quickly as possible. If as many people as possible switch, the price of fuel goes down (due to people not using it), and the cost of replacement systems also goes down (due to increased efficiencies of scale in production). This is thus also the best way to mitigate the consequences for the poor. It's still going to be an interesting winter.
• mint2 4y ago
  Walking freely into an alley with a mugger isn’t “being green”. Their foolhardy decision to become dependent on Russia is the cause of the current crisis, being green doesnt mean go buy Russian fissile fuels.
  • Kim_Bruning 4y ago
    As far as fissile fuels go, fortunately Russia isn't the only (or even the biggest/best) option. Many countries produce Uranium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
    • mint2 4y ago
      That was a typo - meant to be fossil
      • Kim_Bruning 4y ago
        Possibly Freudian? :-) Fissile fuels are definitely starting to look better and better by the month.