• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    The facts don’t care about the feelings of the electorate, let alone that of shareholders.

    1. Carbon capture does not work. There’s no practical case for it, even if you throw the economics out.
    2. Increasing renewable energy is not enough if we continue to increase our fossil burning.
    3. Any economic or political case for fossils is necessarily short-term, because points 1 and 2 ensure that the long-term always ends in catastrophe and catastrophe is bad for the economy.