Up until quite recently, Canada was still a major exporter of asbestos. Wielding what some have called a massive, government sanctioned, corporate run propaganda campaign to continue brisk sales of the stuff. Let’s not be doing the same with oil and gas. Asbestos has killed, and continues to kill, a very large number of people. Keeping on with the fossil fuel economy, even if all Canada does is export it, could already be set to kill literally everyone.
I would love to see oil go the way of asbestos and just be a problem for the next 100 years, but unless a lot of people get really cool with nuclear power and plastic alternatives, we’re going to be using a decent amount of oil products for a while. I would rather avoid a situation like Germany, where we build a dozen coal plants because a foreign nation decided to stop playing nice.
I wish our high was our own supply; we sell crude to the US & China and buy petrol products back!
@Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
Up until quite recently, Canada was still a major exporter of asbestos. Wielding what some have called a massive, government sanctioned, corporate run propaganda campaign to continue brisk sales of the stuff. Let’s not be doing the same with oil and gas. Asbestos has killed, and continues to kill, a very large number of people. Keeping on with the fossil fuel economy, even if all Canada does is export it, could already be set to kill literally everyone.
I would love to see oil go the way of asbestos and just be a problem for the next 100 years, but unless a lot of people get really cool with nuclear power and plastic alternatives, we’re going to be using a decent amount of oil products for a while. I would rather avoid a situation like Germany, where we build a dozen coal plants because a foreign nation decided to stop playing nice.