Ummm: Africa may be better than it was, but I can assure you there's a lot of oil and gas production in the Middle East which is shockingly shoddy, with runoff regularly poisoning the local wate… (View Post)

Where were are now is in a really great place. Yes, yes, I know it doesn't feel like it. But it only doesn't feel like it because people aren't very good at recognizing the impact of s… (View Post)

I would point out that Norway manages both (a) to have the highest penetration of electric vehicles in the world, (b) one of the highest levels of renewable generation in the world... and (c) still d… (View Post)

Do they not realise that their actions are likely counterproductive and will spur a backlash (a la Trump) that will make global warming worse? It's a hell of a lot more productive to live in the… (View Post)

Even if we used no oil and gas for 'energy', we'd still need oil for plastics and pharmaceiticals, and (this is the big one) natural gas for nitrogen fertilizer. (View Post)