After that you can pretend to be working on a solution, like oil companies pretending to be transitioning to all green energy while not actually reducing oil prodiction at all.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Best of all, you can make money on both ends by selling fake carbon credits while continuing to make the problem worse.
Your own kids and grandkids will have to live (or die, as the case may be) in the hellscape you help to create. Not too long from now there will be no escaping it for anyone, even the wealthy. But if everyone around you now is treating it as not that big a problem, and saying all the time that it's not a big deal, it's actually pretty easy to ignore.
Exactly. Because oil in the ground is profit wasted. The energy companies want to transition the world to green energy - from giant nuclear power plants and wind farms and other centralized megastructures that they control and profit from - but not until the last drop of reasonably extractable fossil fuel has been sold and burned. So they pretend to be working on the "transition" now, and leech billions in government funding, while doing their best to slow the transition until they're ready to profit from it.
A single offshore oil rig produces upwards of $800,000.00 per day. There's no way they're giving that up voluntarily.
And then after they fail to transition to green energy, they can promise to fix the problem by using carbon capture, even though it would require more energy than they have produced.
While increasing oil production*
Sir Richard Wharton: “In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.”
Sir Humphrey Appleby: “Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.”
Sir Richard Wharton: “In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.”
Sir Humphrey Appleby: “Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.”
Can I just say this is a really interestingly laid out comic panel? Message is depressing, but love the design.
And THEN we can increase fear, uncertainty, and doubt by blaming the customers!
Look over there! At yourself! No, not at us, at you!