Can anybody explain what the alternative is for our society to abruptly depart from the use of hydrocarbons?
Tinordi? You have decent arguments to Old Dutch but what's the alternative? How do we shift society and everything that this current energy mix contributes to the fabric of our day-day life?
Seems pretty impossible to me. Shift from gasoline, still need asphalt for roads. Shift to alternate methods of transportation that don't require hydrocarbons, still need plastics, fertilizers, certain petrochemicals.
And while your premise that the argument that "coal is worse" is a hollow argument- and I overall agree with you, why aren't those industries the focus of environmentalists too? Why can't both be? Why aren't they shut down too? They are contributing to CO2 levels significantly.
Also I'm not certain it's so "out there" that US interests and profitability is protected by charitable donations to First Nations and environmentalist groups to protest pipelines and delay alternate distribution markets which would lead to rising prices for those companies. That isn't really an "out there" theory.
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