@urlyman@mastodon.social
…Oil extraction at scale won’t sputter out because we’ll have run out of oil, but because the burning of unimaginable quantities of it will have made it impossible to extract affordably.
We’ll have created climatic conditions where it will often be too environmentally volatile to extract oil (or gas), so there will be intermittency. And that will have extraordinary cascading effects.
We’ll have chosen an #energyTransition, but without really choosing.
Get ready
#climateDiary
@urlyman@mastodon.social
Imagine how expensive things will become when the externalities of oil finally get priced IN.
We need a different economics before our own stupidity forces it on us.
Biden/Trump won’t bring it.
bin Abdulaziz Al Saud won’t bring it.
Kishida won’t bring it.
Macron won’t bring it.
Meloni won’t bring it.
Modi won’t bring it.
Scholz won’t bring it.
Sunak/Starmer won’t bring it.
Trudeau won’t bring it.
von der Leyen won’t bring it.
Putin won’t bring it.
Xi Jinping won’t bring it.
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#degrowth