Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody...
by RestlessMind on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:01PM
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So if someone is in their late 30's or 40's, having made an entire career in oil industry, with a family and mortgage - your proposal to them is to make their jobs obsolete and that they should seek a career in an at-best tangentially related field like solar?
Look, I get that climate change is one of the most important problems we are facing. But if we want to devise a solution, it has to pass the "political viability" test. Else, you are only inviting a radicalized electorate.
Example: "yellow vests" in France, which is supposed to be a rich society with plenty of resources to withstand the shock from rearranging an oil-based economy, with people supportive of generous social safety nets. If France can't get a gas tax passed without fierce nationwide protests, forget about making oil jobs redundant in Texas, let alone in developing countries like Nigeria or Kazakhstan.
Look, I get that climate change is one of the most important problems we are facing. But if we want to devise a solution, it has to pass the "political viability" test. Else, you are only inviting a radicalized electorate.
Example: "yellow vests" in France, which is supposed to be a rich society with plenty of resources to withstand the shock from rearranging an oil-based economy, with people supportive of generous social safety nets. If France can't get a gas tax passed without fierce nationwide protests, forget about making oil jobs redundant in Texas, let alone in developing countries like Nigeria or Kazakhstan.