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After last week's run in with propaganda left us with a ton of questions, we decided to split up and research independently, then come back together and share what we learned.
Courtney looked into the injustices, and potential issues with mining for renewable energy and found that we might just be swapping one issue for another one.
And she updated us on the currently accepted research on climate change - which, in essence, is that shit is about to go DOWN.
We seem to always come back to the topic of injustice from the fossil fuel industry, and to be honest - it was never (we literally mean never) an ethical industry. Human rights violation and ecological destruction started with John D. Rockefeller and never stopped... but it did move (largely) off of US soil.
Where we find that the fossil fuel industry has been sowing the seeds of instability in other countries for decades. And why? For profit.
Because, as Aub found out when she followed the money, we (tax payers) spend upwards of $1 trillion globally in tax breaks and subsidies for the industry (that number does NOT include the various negative externalities) - more than half of which goes towards the projects in "developing nations" to create infrastructure there.
And the industry does this under the guise of "progress" and "unconventional oil and gas development" because, according to Alex Epstein and the other big oil lobbyists, there's a ton of fossil fuels left - we just don't have the tech to get it.
But that's not the whole truth.
Aub also looked into what there IS left and found out that it is indeed very quickly running out. - Like less than a lifetime running out - and what we're pumping up from new tech, like the fracking method, isn't as viable. It needs more refinement.
In general. The relationship we, as a global society, have with the fossil fuel industry, is a toxic, abusive one that we are in the beginning stages of figuring out how to leave.
Based on past behavior, and where the rare elements are for the renewable sources we're trying to create, we don't think this transition will go down without a fight.
See our Youtube video here for a link of our sources: https://youtu.be/6t_p1G5WeJ8
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After last week's run in with propaganda left us with a ton of questions, we decided to split up and research independently, then come back together and share what we learned.
Courtney looked into the injustices, and potential issues with mining for renewable energy and found that we might just be swapping one issue for another one.
And she updated us on the currently accepted research on climate change - which, in essence, is that shit is about to go DOWN.
We seem to always come back to the topic of injustice from the fossil fuel industry, and to be honest - it was never (we literally mean never) an ethical industry. Human rights violation and ecological destruction started with John D. Rockefeller and never stopped... but it did move (largely) off of US soil.
Where we find that the fossil fuel industry has been sowing the seeds of instability in other countries for decades. And why? For profit.
Because, as Aub found out when she followed the money, we (tax payers) spend upwards of $1 trillion globally in tax breaks and subsidies for the industry (that number does NOT include the various negative externalities) - more than half of which goes towards the projects in "developing nations" to create infrastructure there.
And the industry does this under the guise of "progress" and "unconventional oil and gas development" because, according to Alex Epstein and the other big oil lobbyists, there's a ton of fossil fuels left - we just don't have the tech to get it.
But that's not the whole truth.
Aub also looked into what there IS left and found out that it is indeed very quickly running out. - Like less than a lifetime running out - and what we're pumping up from new tech, like the fracking method, isn't as viable. It needs more refinement.
In general. The relationship we, as a global society, have with the fossil fuel industry, is a toxic, abusive one that we are in the beginning stages of figuring out how to leave.
Based on past behavior, and where the rare elements are for the renewable sources we're trying to create, we don't think this transition will go down without a fight.
See our Youtube video here for a link of our sources: https://youtu.be/6t_p1G5WeJ8