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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Our country is one of the few on earth where indigenous peoples are even given the breath at which to scoff at resource development.
I need you to be honest with yourself here, are you willing to forgo modern heating, electricity, plastics (healthcare included) and other chemicals that are produced using canadian oil? Primarily, the alternative will come from a region with much less stringent requirements and enforcement.
That's the only choice, we can't just stop producing oil and hope everyone will do the same. They certainly will not, the only thing that will happen is that the production will be offset with more economical production. The transition is a slow march, there's a heavy element of economic realism involved. Ultimately, we are afforded a significant increase in our quality of life due to having industrialized with easy energy sources. We cant impose restrictions of use on these sources on people in India, indonesia, africa etc without providing an economically similar alternative.
We can't even get our own citizens off of this in the near future. The amount of grid upgrades required to fully electrify for example is mind numbing. Basically economically impossible in the near term. Oil is something we will be living with for a long time, unless you can completely alter human psycology and convince the everyday person to live with far less.
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Woaa, I'm just saying don't tell kids stuff that are facts when they are not. I work in the oil industry, I'm not some delusional tree huger. I recognize the importance of it, but also the drawbacks(which are obviously many). I just think with the decreasing trust in our institutions that make up democracy, maybe stuff like that should be left for the war room, unless they are actually going to make a lesson about it.
And I don't actually think "Indigenous are way worse elsewhere" is a very good defense. OK, so we are better. We are still pretty ####ty to them, and when the oil hits the road, we all know where they stand and who wins.