mos6507 wrote:Cry me a river. I'm not sure how many kids right out of school would feel proud to tell people they work in the fossil fuel industry. You'd think that generation would be more concerned about the longterm impact of climate change than any other, since they are surely going to be facing it in their lifetime. Bring on the green collar jobs.
I'll feel proud to tell people what I'm doing with the money I'm making if I get the chance to work in the business. I'll be putting the money into restoring agriculturally-destroyed land.
It should also be pointed out that drilling and exploring for new fossil fuels does little to the environment other than the direct landscape (and advancing technology reduces that every year). Where GCC comes into play is how the FF are used. It's just like an opium producer. The opium can be used for either heroin or medicine. If a opium producer sells it to an anonymous buyer and that buyer uses it for heroin, is that the fault of the producer? Of course not. Just as in the case with opium (or guns or vehicles, etc.) a producer of FF (I mean the engineers, geologists, workers, etc.) can't be held liable if the end user uses the product for gasoline instead of medicine or useful plastics (such as in hospitals, schools and such). This is especially the case when the geologists, such as myself, do everything in their power to drive people away from cars. Put the blame on GCC where it belongs.
Producing FF doesn't cause GCC; burning FF does.
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