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Originally Posted by woob
I don't know if pete's comment was going off the deep end, but this diatribe sure was. Yikes.
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How so? Perhaps I am hyperbolic or wrong, lemme know.
It’s like talking to Street Pharma in the new energy thread, assuring us that the energy transition is gonna be swift and that, literally everything oil and gas is used for, has a suitable replacement product in development and ready to replace oil and gas derivatives in the near-term.
It’s delusional, based on everything I read, which is daily briefings on all things energy, global supply and demand, various excerpts regarding different products and how things are changing in the energy space, and acknowledging where there are real successes and failures for replacement energy products and services. Information put together by groups like the EIA, governments, banks, intellectuals, experienced professionals, etc.
There is going to be changes. People are trying. Some will work, some won’t. But the speed and adoption rates lobbied around by hopeful ideologues of the western world are not based in the realities of this world and when I say this world I mean, literally, the whole world. Not just Canada and the United States and Europe.
I’m sorry to say, climate change is a problem for only the highest elites of this world, and even if any other problem comes along that challenges the standards of living Canadians enjoy, watch climate change quickly tumble aside in importance. We can’t handle grocers increasing prices (not even that much, relative to the demands climate change would truly pose to pricing relatively speaking), and all of a sudden climate change is shelve and we have Weston in question period getting roasted.
And that’s not to say climate change isn’t a problem. It is. But my personal opinion is that the majority of this planet does not think it is as important as the west would love everyone to believe. People are at war. People are starving. People are fighting for freedom, people are recovering from COVID. Which reminds me, how much did we give a #### about climate change when COVID came along? Oh that’s right, it wasn’t even in the top 10 of discussion items in the large majority of circles. All these things are what I’m talking about.
People on the west coast just looooove to look down their nose at all these “conservative backwater redneck hicks” who are “uneducated” etc. you literally see these sentiments on this site in political threads. And you’re going to say that calling them detached from reality is over the top? People are self-interested. Including people on the west coast. It’s human nature. It’s the condescending finger wag that gets old, not calling it out.