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Only high oil and gas prices specifically. And honestly, low gas prices is good if it helps move away from coal.

But unfortunately, even the most liberal political groups have walked back any interest in solving climate change at the margin. You see this with the endless life of the "100 companies cause climate change" misinformation.




> And honestly, low gas prices is good if it helps move away from coal.

Good news, the UK has completely moved away from coal: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-e...


China now emits almost 2x the carbon per capita than the UK, and alone emits more than all western countries combined including the US. The UK can't solve climate change at the margin or anywhere else with domestic energy policy.

China is now consuming record amounts of coal (the globe has not actually even reached peak-coal yet despite claims we'd already passed it going back decades and despite western coal consumption taking a nosedive starting about 20 years ago). Which is strange considering that it has also been an enormous producer and exporter of allegedly much cheaper solar and wind generators for many years.

Something doesn't add up here, and further disadvantaging much cleaner domestic industry and driving production offshore to countries with far higher emissions intensity of production (not to mention many other environmental and humanitraian issues) is not the way to solve climate change. It could be making it even worse.


That 100 companies canard is really terrible. It's seeking a villain to blame instead of addressing the system problems and it's second or third order effects such as climate change. I understand it probably motivates some folks but I can't help but roll my eyes.


The deeper problem might be that they gave up on fighting inequality; which would give regular people enough breathing room to make changes on the margin.

Without that, the argument is basically "We know that life is barely worth living, but we aren't going to help with that. Instead we want to make your life even worse to save the environment!"




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