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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
sounds similar to the posturing pedestrian argument of how guns are a big part of the solution for gun violence problems in the USA. Like some kind passage from the NRA bible: guns begat guns which begat guns which begat guns....
fossil fuels got us into this mess. how the fuck are they going to get us out of it?
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That is a false analogy and you damn well know it.
You work at Western, why don't you try to see how fast you would be out of a job without the oil you hate. From running out of water, no electricity or communications, and not being able to get to work and neither can your students. How fast would you and your family starve when there is no oil to produce, package, and transport the food that you rely on everyday. See how fast your family gets sick due to a break down of our sanitations systems and there will be no help because all our medicines, medical supplies, and nurses & doctors are all of a sudden not available.
Fossil fuels {and especially oil} runs our lives and to say other wise is just a feel-good attempt to exonerate ourselves of personal responsibility. Our entire industrial society was, and is still is, built and based upon the amply supply and mass usage of oil and getting rid of it all of a sudden would plunge our world back to a pre-1800 economy and standard of living. Anyone who plans to go fossil fuel free all of a sudden better be prepared to starve, freeze, and die MUCH earlier.
We will ALWAYS need fossil fuels and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. Mother Nature doesn't give damn whether we use fossil fuels or not as long when we are done using them we don't turn around and stick them in the air but rather back underground were they belong.
Let's not kid ourselves, an immediate stop of fossil fuels in our now urban society would kill us and no, that is hyperbole but simply reality and if you don't believe me than go and try it for yourselves.
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