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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Sure but the basic point still stands, the scenario still has a large role for fossil fuels.
What I find frustrating about the previous pages of discussion is just how ready many posters are to build some strawman to which they can start extolling ALL of their grievances on. Some mythical hypocritical environmentalist conspiracy lead by the evil witch Naomi Klein is out there with crazy ideas to shut down all fossil fuel production immediately and throw us back to the dark ages if we don't stand up and point out just how stupid and evil their ideas are.
Meanwhile there's a whole field of policy experts, economics, engineers, academics, politicians who are meticulously trying to advance policy and avoid calamity from climate change. But screw all them! This is about winning an argument with David Suzuki and not trying to work our way out of one of the greatest problems humanity has had to overcome.
It's like saying that the whole NDP is a bunch of communists hell bent on destroying Alberta and all that we hold dear... oh wait.
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We agree that even in a "green future" fossil fuels will still play a role. IMO solving electricity generation alone would probably get us to a healthy equilibrium since electric cars will continue to propagate.
The problem people have (at least myself) is this constant "durr the oil companies, evil corps, blah blah" which is a basic tenant of even the less extreme voices. Sorry, this is us, not corporations. Corporations will sell us what we want for as long as we want it. This whole sanctimonious stance people take when it comes to this is tiring and people need to accept that we're the ones responsible for this, not "them".