Comment on Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards

• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I doubt you are messaging in any good faith, but which aspect does that open ended question point to? I’m not going to give the history of the world as I know it!

  My point is, we have not been good stewards of our environment and we knee jerk towards the most destructive path at all times. Find some evidence to the contrary and we will discuss.

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  • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nothing “knee-jerk” in it; it’s just pragmatic. The economy needs to run, and a strong economy is required to achieve any meaningful progress. The main problem is that many of “green” green lack knowledge (or pretend to lack knowledge) of the real world. They do tremendous damage to real “green” projects by advocating for “pipe dreams” instead of projects that could achieve something. Look at the anti-nuclear position of the “Green” party as an example (they should be pro-nuclear if they genuinely care about the environment). All their proposals are just hand-waving, which is unachievable and has no link to reality. And when you ask them, “What are the alternatives? Is there a real plan?” all you get are accusations or another “pipe dream”

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    • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry, i think the greens have potential, but they do over do it, and the environment suffers due to stalled legislation as they are chasing something unrealistic.

      But again, that doesn’t change my original point. As a country that should be a leader environmentally, we have completely failed. This is just a patch solution to a problem that we should have better planned for long ago. This is not the first fuel crunch.

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