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UN Chief Says Rich Countries 'Signing Away Our Future' With Fossil Fuel Development.
(www.commondreams.org)
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No, but they could be completely replaced by a combination of renewable energy production and would have been if not for people like you making excuses for sticking with the deadly status quo.
There's literally no vehicle that can be powered by diesel or gasoline that can't be powered by an electric motor.
And if it was up to you, that would probably be forever.
It would have happened decades ago if not for luddites like you.
Because people like you keep voting for politicians who are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industries and thus only a fraction of the possible production is realized.
Again, because of luddites like you standing on the brakes as the world burns.
The tens of millions of people killed in the next decade or two as a direct result thank you and people like you.
You don't know what you're talking about. You don't have any idea who I vote for or my positions on energy. You've made a number of completely baseless assumptions about me.
False.
Can't know for sure, but based on your statements, there's a very low probability that you only vote for the few politicians that DON'T receive legal bribes from fossil fuel interests.
Not possible unless you were being unclear or just blatantly lying.
Nah, I've made a series of educated guesses based on seeing the same exact arguments hundreds if not thousands of times before
Always by people who oppose the solutions that actually work for subjective reasons but want to pretend that change objectively just isn't feasible.
Ok, tell me your educated guess about what my positions on energy are and I'll tell you if you're right.
I never said that change isn't feasible, I said that fossil fuel use is likely to continue into the foreseeable future, because we're not building enough renewables or nuclear power plants, and because people aren't buying enough EVs, and because not all fossil fuel powered equipment have non fossil fuel powered alternatives that are available right now, like jet planes, for instance.