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Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization (fortune.com)
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“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This kinda lines up with propaganda I've been seeing the past couple years (from the likes of Peter Theil and Alex Epstein). They argue that we should be extracting and using fossil fuels as fast as possible. The (stupid, fucked up, wishful thinking) idea is that cheap energy drives human development and technological solutions to climate change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah... And I mean, that's correct in a sense-- Cheap energy is good. It's just not the only factor.

Like cheap food is great too, but you might end up in a bad place if your nutrition strategy is just "spend as little as possible."