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Unfortunately, solving the many problems of this century requires us to walk and chew gum at the same time. Oil and gas extraction also leaves an enormous amoun
by mbgerring 3y ago
Unfortunately, solving the many problems of this century requires us to walk and chew gum at the same time. Oil and gas extraction also leaves an enormous amount of social destruction in its wake, such as the massive increase in homicide, drug abuse and sex trafficking in the Bakken Shale region in North Dakota during the boom in the 2010s. Social issues created by resource extraction are not unique to renewable energy, and highlighting those problems only when they relate to renewables is deeply intellectually dishonest.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoWhy is this not "whataboutism?" It's okay if it happens again because it happened previously?
- fluoridation 3y agoI think what the GP is saying is that neither thing is okay, but if one is acceptable (in the sense that it's not so terrible that using the resource is untenable) then the other should also be. Sometimes the difference between whataboutism and pointing out inconsistencies can be very small.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoSorry, roughnecks voluntarily spending their money on prostitutes and drugs is an entirely different thing from state-run forced labor camps. > deeply intellectually dishonest. Umm... okay.