Re: the meme here, a reader motes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy.
There is no doubt that this was the focus on the part of Big Oil. Looks at from that perspective, the “justification” is clear: show the world the fossil energy is here to stay, and that, as they say in science fiction, “resistance is futile.”
Their problem, of course, is that the costs of solar and wind continue to come down, and that the power of pure market forces will eventually make energy from oil, gas and coal, prohibitively expensive.
Precisely what this planet will be like at that point is impossible to determine, as is the prognosis for keeping temperature rises to a workable level.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2023/12/12/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-on-climate-meeting-beyond-justification/
Prioritizing the relative importance of addressing America’s social woes is, to be sure, an inexact science.
Our war vets are living on the streets, dying of preventable diseases. We may never another free and fair election. Clean energy, which was once making significant progress in decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors, is being shot to ribbons by the current presidential administration.
But goddamn it! We need to start solving problems that don’t exist, like drag queens in our schools.
College students have been protesting en masse against U.S. aggression abroad and suppression of human rights domestically since the 1960s. These institutions and their students cite “free speech,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment, as the basis for this basic American right.
Now, with the stupidification (my word) of this nation, this has suddenly become controversial.
Does this guy have a solid point?
Is war a bad thing? What about rape and torture?
Do they point to weaknesses that must be strengthened?
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