RE: Ecology topic
September 29, 2019 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2019 at 12:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC I'm a "nature guy"...but I'm also a realist.
The benefits of fossil fuel consumption are undeniable. There is at least some of that benefit that's non negotiable, yes. It is ludicrous to imagine that the majority of the worlds population, which hasn't fully availed itself of those benefits, won't. It's similarly ludicrous to imagine a government so high minded and selfless as to just pass on those benefits, waiting for some other solution which doesn't exist and will still need to be deployed whenever we come up with it, if ever. While other governments gleefully plow through whatever fossil fuel they can hoover up, ofc.
In the developed world (I hope) fossil fuel consumption is going to be drastically reduced. It will increase in the developing world - partly because of it's utility, and partly because of the greater availability of the resource as we consume a smaller share of it. Unless we can offer them some way to reach those development milestones that we burned through oil for - this will all be well meaning hypocrisy in the face of real human need. I think we need to understand that. To temper our expectations to reality. All we have planned now, is shuffling patterns of consumption around. I suppose, in our dreams, of being able to say "Wasn't us, we didn't do it, we stopped!".
The benefits of fossil fuel consumption are undeniable. There is at least some of that benefit that's non negotiable, yes. It is ludicrous to imagine that the majority of the worlds population, which hasn't fully availed itself of those benefits, won't. It's similarly ludicrous to imagine a government so high minded and selfless as to just pass on those benefits, waiting for some other solution which doesn't exist and will still need to be deployed whenever we come up with it, if ever. While other governments gleefully plow through whatever fossil fuel they can hoover up, ofc.
In the developed world (I hope) fossil fuel consumption is going to be drastically reduced. It will increase in the developing world - partly because of it's utility, and partly because of the greater availability of the resource as we consume a smaller share of it. Unless we can offer them some way to reach those development milestones that we burned through oil for - this will all be well meaning hypocrisy in the face of real human need. I think we need to understand that. To temper our expectations to reality. All we have planned now, is shuffling patterns of consumption around. I suppose, in our dreams, of being able to say "Wasn't us, we didn't do it, we stopped!".
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