RE: Smart move8 Sep 2022 16:09
JRM is an absolute GW denier. The strategy of removing Fossil Fuels from energy and transportation has many benefits.
It will make OPEC powerless and not able to manipulate POO. When cars, buses are being powered by battery or H Fuel Cell, the air quality will increase to levels not seen before ( before industrialisation, people burnt coal and wood, and we had Smog). Worldwide, millions die pa from chest infections. The roads are quieter. The employment opportunities for 'green' energy will be immense. Tne downside at the moment is the war in Ukraine. Putin gets his coffers filled with oil and gas sales to China, India, Africa, in other words, the usual suspects. China will be a World leader in BEV and BYD will soon be selling cars in Europe. Britain has, as usual, not taken the chance to be a global leader. The main benefit though is the reduction of GHG in the atmosphere, which is fuelling extreme weather conditions Worldwide. Now there is an argument that these extreme conditions are cyclical, over decades or even millennia. May be correct. However, the big question is ' what if they are wrong'. The answer to that could be rising sea levels of 15mtrs, resulting in 80% of Worlds population having to move inland., and possibly the destruction of life as we know it. If they are right, we get cleaner air, and goodbye to OPEC and oil oligarchs.