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Suppose for a moment that human-driven global warming is real, and a direct threat to human survival. Suppose that burning fossil fuels is one of the biggest dr
by calibas 2y ago
Suppose for a moment that human-driven global warming is real, and a direct threat to human survival. Suppose that burning fossil fuels is one of the biggest drivers of global warming.
Now who are the "bad guys" and who are the "good guys"? The people defending the fossil fuel industry, or the people attacking it?
Now I have my personal doubts about some of Greenpeace's methods, but maybe we should be doing much more to curtail the power of the oil industry?
- nradov 2y agoWe should reduce the use of fossil fuels but that will take decades. Human civilization today can't operate without extensive use of fossil fuels. They're going to get used no matter what. Given that, it's a lot safer and cleaner to transport them using pipelines. If pipeline construction is blocked then oil companies will transport their products on railroads, which burn fossil fuels themselves and have caused numerous major spills and fires.
- calibas 2y ago> We should reduce the use of fossil fuels but that will take decades. I remember people saying that decades ago, and fossil fuel consumption has only risen since then... Here in the US, we've been expanding production and breaking records! The opposite of what we should be doing, and I have no faith that the government, especially the current administration, is going change things either. This all works out great for the oil industry, the plans to solve climate change are perpetually decades away, and in the mean time oil consumption stays the same or even increases!