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Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days
- wdh505 3y agoLong story short. Move toward the poles. High ground and water supplies and nearby farmers.
- Arnt 3y agoIf you're lucky, you don't even need to move, the jetstream moves the pole to you and you get -40 degrees every winter!
- joegyoung 3y agoOr a heat dome when the jet stream slows. It makes loops up and down where pockets of extreme heat or cold form
- 1letterunixname 3y agoUnlikely unless you live in the southern hemisphere. Nodal lock is now rare in the northern hemisphere because Arctic sea ice is very low, which is required to stabilize the polar jet stream and keep the cold in the north. This causes weather/climate to become highly variable in the northern hemisphere. Long term, I would look to areas like southern Chile and Tasmania because Arctic and Subarctic areas will increasingly experience forest fires, tundra collapse, and highly variable temperatures.
- Affric 3y agoBoy, do I have bad news for you about Tasmania if you don't like forest fires.
- two_handfuls 3y agoThat’s not honest at all. That’s just a different set of talking points. “while society wants to see emissions reduced, nobody wants to pay for it.” Yeah, right, oil is cheaper, of course.
- Biologist123 3y agoHe’s right in the sense that people, in today’s set up, don’t want to pay. But can we imagine a different choice architecture where people don’t mind giving up the black stuff?
- ItsMonkk 3y agoThis is just more talking points to confuse. The architecture that economists and climate scientists both agree will move the needle on this is a revenue neutral carbon tax. A revenue neutral carbon tax taxes carbon, and then returns 100% of that tax money back to people equally. Anyone who uses less than the average amount of carbon - which is a majority of the population - since the top users use so much, get paid in this scheme. People might not want to pay, but they don't have to. Excessive users, the non-majority, pay. People, on average, don't pay - they get paid. The architecture already exists, it's already law in certain countries, and anyone ignoring this fundamental reality is not being serious.
- stuaxo 3y agoCheaper because they don't pay for the externalities. It's their own profits they are talking about, amazing people fall for this.
- caminante 3y agoThey? What about us? What's stopping us from passing punitive and progressive taxes on their scope 3 GHG emissions?
- ykonstant 3y agoThe fact that we are not passing the laws, elected representatives are. There is a tremendous firewall between us and our representatives, and lobby systems are past the firewall.
- derelicta 3y agoGood. Now jail 'em for 10 years.