musings

With acknowledgements to Dr John, who was singing about an entirely different moral dilemma. There is a finite amount of oil on (in?) planet earth, right? I mean, they may not have discovered it all, and some oil may be very difficult to extract but whatever, there is only so much of it.

Okay, we all know now that burning oil is bad, but we are going to burn it. Until it is all gone. So what we’re talking about is how fast, and who is going to do it. My point is this: somebody, somewhere is going to burn every litre of oil there is. Why shouldn’t we be the ones to drive around in cars and fly all over the place? Reducing our rate of consumption simply ekes it out for future generations. It doesn’t reduce the amount of CO₂ that will eventually go into the atmosphere.

Or am I wrong?

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