This argument that "Alberta has fossil fuel gunk in the ground so we have to dig it up and ship it out" is weird. It's like saying you have to keep eating a cake even after you start to feel sick and are having regrets... Because there's still cake... 1/6
It's like saying "you've spent an hour at this party and you're having a bad time, but you have to stay until the end because the party is going on..." 2/6
It's like saying "we haven't caught all the fish in the sea yet, so we have to keep fishing. We have to build more, bigger boats and huger drag nets, we have to grow and expand until there is no life in the oceans...." 3/6
It's like saying "everyone with a vagina should be a sex worker, because if you aren't it's a resource that's being wasted and there's always a big demand for that sort of service..." 4/6
It's like saying "We are so greedy, we are going to keep destroying the environment & encourage others to destroy the environment, until there's no oil left & we don't know what to do with the glut of bitumen we have in storage because no one wants it." Yeah, it's like that. 5/6
Yet, we can make choices. We can say, "No thank you. I have had enough cake. If I have any more, things are going to go badly for me." We can invest in transitioning, retraining workers. Why is that so awful to some people? There's good money in renewable resources. 6/6
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