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Originally Posted by Pierre
Close, My position is that climate change ( and we can debate all the inputs to that) is indeed a real phenomenon, but the effects are manageable and we don’t have to bankrupt ourselves chasing the end of the rainbow that is “net-zero” which is unachievable.
There’s another thread on this forum titled “energy crisis”, that energy crisis has been precipitated in part because of this race to expensive unreliable renewable types of generation.
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Come on now Pierre, the energy crisis had everything to do with relying on Russia and the Middle Eastern countries to play nice and let the "market" work for us. They worked out they could rinse us and we got left exposed.
That's not the green agenda at play.
There's no such thing as the world (or western economies) bankrupting itself. Actually renewables presents a great opportunity to become independent. Of course that requires massive investment, but one that pays off in the long run.
Of course there's a lot of financial interest in us not doing that. The same old same old of burning oil and gas is billions a year for the incumbents.
That's not to say of course there's not money input from the other side who stand to gain from investment in renewables.
What's in our interest (as in me, you and the other little guys down here just living and working away) is almost undoubtedly somewhere in-between.