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A significant number of people impacted are not the ones supporting the Texan petrostate, since Texas isn't a functioning democracy. It's pretty callous to phr

by i80and 3y ago

A significant number of people impacted are not the ones supporting the Texan petrostate, since Texas isn't a functioning democracy. It's pretty callous to phrase this as "economic darwinism"

bratbag 3y ago
That doesn't make it any less accurate.
- pierat 3y ago
  That's what I don't get about the tone policing garbage. A lot of people here don't like to actually face the hard truths. And instead of actual hard fact, it's just "too callous". What about these heat deaths https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/ https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deat... ? Are they just a 'economic deviation' from 'climate change'? Who wants to tell their families that they died so we can keep living a climate-destroying lifestyle? There's only so much that fake positivism does. No sense in being actually mean towards people, but I'm not going to use terrible euphemisms to avoid sounding 'callous'. This is a climate emergency, and these deaths are going to get a whole lot worse.
rossdavidh 3y ago
The more fundamental problem here is that Texas is one of the leading states in solar and wind power generation, even as a % of total utility power. The peak pricing is in large part intended to incentivize this, so that power sources (like solar) which are not 24x7 but do produce during peak times, make enough money to incentivize more. Which is working, as we see in the ever-increasing % of solar power, far ahead of most other states and pulling away. The primary reason for peak power increases in Texas is that the population is increasing fast in the last few years. Climate change surely doesn't help, but the primary thing that has changed in the last few years is that we use a whole lot LESS oil and coal than we used to, and we have a whole lot more people than we used to.

by i80and 3y ago

A significant number of people impacted are not the ones supporting the Texan petrostate, since Texas isn't a functioning democracy. It's pretty callous to phrase this as "economic darwinism"

bratbag 3y ago

That doesn't make it any less accurate.

pierat 3y ago
That's what I don't get about the tone policing garbage. A lot of people here don't like to actually face the hard truths. And instead of actual hard fact, it's just "too callous". What about these heat deaths https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/ https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deat... ? Are they just a 'economic deviation' from 'climate change'? Who wants to tell their families that they died so we can keep living a climate-destroying lifestyle? There's only so much that fake positivism does. No sense in being actually mean towards people, but I'm not going to use terrible euphemisms to avoid sounding 'callous'. This is a climate emergency, and these deaths are going to get a whole lot worse.

rossdavidh 3y ago

The more fundamental problem here is that Texas is one of the leading states in solar and wind power generation, even as a % of total utility power. The peak pricing is in large part intended to incentivize this, so that power sources (like solar) which are not 24x7 but do produce during peak times, make enough money to incentivize more. Which is working, as we see in the ever-increasing % of solar power, far ahead of most other states and pulling away. The primary reason for peak power increases in Texas is that the population is increasing fast in the last few years. Climate change surely doesn't help, but the primary thing that has changed in the last few years is that we use a whole lot LESS oil and coal than we used to, and we have a whole lot more people than we used to.