Says exec of company that has objectively caused more environmental harm to the world than any others

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    False equivalence. If we had been working towards this goal since the 70s then more focus, both financial and science/engineering, would have been put into it and progress we’re making now might have happened 20 or 30 years ago.

    Oil companies did everything they could to stop it, instead of positioning themselves as research leaders they went for short term profits. After all, they swam in pools of money for the rest of their lives and we’ll all be here when all the crops die and the mountains become the shores.

    So anyway, that’s why I love communism now.

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      that’s why I love communism now

      Imagine the Republicans controlling not only the government funding but also private funding. That’s what you’d get under communism.

      Or imagine lowest common denominator tragedy of the commons with cheap fuel ousting all other forms of energy with no state to stop it.

      Communism is a stupid ideal that doesn’t work in the real world.

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      So anyway, that’s why I love communism now.

      Ah yes, the Soviet Union was well-known for its production of renewable power.

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        The Soviet Union never transitioned to communism, they stopped at an authoritarian state.

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      “Instead of positioning themselves as research leaders”

      Why would they? If researching new ways of replacing oil is in everyone’s benefit then why does it fall on oil companies to do it? And not also everyone else?