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Nothing brings out the “can’t do” spirit as swiftly as the climate crisis.
We need oil. We need it more than anything. We need it more than life itself. We need it more than we need our own children.
We simply MUST have oil and if gas at the pump goes up to, say $5 a gallon, it’s the end of the world. People will NOT accept that. It’s politically unfeasible.
We cannot live in a world without cheap oil and without driving multi-thousand pound vehicles around wherever and whenever we want — for practical reasons or no reason at all.
Because freedom.
And then there are the jobs. Those poor oil workers. How would YOU like to lose your job? I mean, think of the families!
But whatever you do, don’t think about the jobs and families of, say, service workers or teachers or farmers because — well, they’re just a bunch of greedy takers, aren’t they?
Of course, I don’t buy this argument. (Can’t you tell?!) I mean, it seems kind of selective, don’t you think? Think about it. After World War II, all of the concentration camp workers lost their jobs. What happened to those people? And their families? Maybe they were bad people for working in concentration camps (or maybe it’s just the banality of evil) —…
