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Originally Posted by MattyC
So the solution to you is, well, there's nothing practical yet. Let's just keep going along with what we're doing.
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If there's nothing practical, then, yeah, we keep doing what we're doing until someone can convince me we should do something else instead.
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If we're going to talk impractical, how is it practical to continually pour obscene amounts of resources and research into something that has an endpoint, that negatively impacts the earth and our society (the fact that we worry about our prices being to high that other nations will buy it from human rights violators, murderers and really all around terrible people shows that this has a negative impact on our society) and actually causes conflict and violence? How is it impractical when we have opportunities for real change towards alternatives that can help us? How is it practical that those alternatives receive a minute fraction of resources and investment towards research than the former?
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As usual, a bunch of run-on rhetorical garbage devoid of any content aside from the demonizing of an industry and providing absolutely no viable options or actual policy that anyone could possibly support, even if you convinced me that oil companies are literally run by CEO Lucifer.
I don't know how I can be clearer here:
You cannot just be against the status quo. You need to be for an alternative. You need to be able to articulate what that alternative is and why we should prefer it to the status quo. Otherwise you have literally no political position whatsoever; only the absence of a position.
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We're going to have to change.
We can wait until we can no longer rely on our current energy sources, or we can make a proactive move towards something better. Things already in existence but severely underfunded.
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More vague references to "something better" and "things" with absolutely no details about these "things", or how we can use them to our advantage, or why they would improve our situation.