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Big Sun turned me into a newt
So the valid observation is this: Countries started using green energy as a supplement and replacement to fossil fuels, and as fossil fuels are being phased out for any number of good reasons, those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling. But because they weren’t yet entirely free of the need for fossil fuels yet, cutting off those fuels left them with an energy deficit.
The bad take: The move towards green energy made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should go back to funding the fossil fuels industry as soon as possible.
The correct take: The continued reliance on fossil fuels made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should rid ourselves of that reliance as soon as possible.
A country that runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, even nuclear, doesn’t have to worry if the flow of oil is open or not. Ever. Your infrastructure would have to be attacked directly (like the war crime Trump threatened) to cut you off at that point. That’s about as invulnerable as you could hope for.
those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling
That’s not true either. One or two countries moved away from collection (because it was uncompetitive already), none moved away from stockpiling.
And as a country replaces some of the fuel, the previous collection and stockpile, without a change makes for a larger safety net.
True culprit behind poop all over the floor is potty-training a toddler.
The parents handed their toddler leverage by deluding themselves into believing they could wean their child from diapers
^By SOMEONE WITHOUT OBJECT PERMANENCE OR PATTERN RECOGNITION^
Brenda Shaffer, whoever she is, is clearly an idiot.
Could/should be an alias
Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Shaffer
The New York Times added an editor’s note on 17 September 2014 stating that the op-ed did not disclose that she had been an adviser to Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company and that her contributor contract required disclosure of actual or potential conflicts of interest
and there’s like 3 more cases of that…
She got a bad case of Murdoch…
I’m reading that as “the global renewables policy is too weak, and now Iran has more leverage because of that policy weakness”.
Yeah I wish lol. She’s just a crook, check her wikipedia out
That could be, but the sub-heading makes me question that.
That’s the part that makes me think “too weak” as in “the West has shown by its weak renewables policy that it’s not able to wean itself off of fossil fuels”.
I’m not saying it’s crystal clear; it’s all badly written.
The “west” makes me think this was made by russian propagandists
Yes he’s called Murdoch.
Definitely a possibility, although I know that headline writers are sometimes just stupid.
“Instead of relying on energy we can produce at home, we should rely on an energy source from an unstable part of the world that can be easily cut off because it makes a small group of billionaires very rich.”
40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”
I’m sure there is a joke about gaslighting somewhere in here. “The modern economy doesn’t run on gas combustion engines, it runs on gaslight newspapers.”
The Onion or NotTheOnion?
just murdoch things
You can’t get it any more ass-backwards than that.
It’s embarrassing that the paper uses the name of our country but gives crap like that.
The rare mental quadruple backflip. It takes so much brain power you have to get a running start
What absolute horseshit.
Those lobbyists and the prompts they use for their AI articles will destroy satirists’ jobs.
