The Oil Industry and Global Warming
I just met a guy whose career was drilling for oil; he’d been active all over North America and the Middle East for about 40 years until he retired ten years ago.
Naturally, I asked him for his thoughts on our civilization’s phasing out fossil fuels in favor of low-carbon sources of energy. He responded, “If you’re asking me if I believe in global warming, the answer is that I don’t. If it exists at all, it will take at least a million years to do any real damage to human beings, and by then, we will probably have disappeared through some other means.”
Now, this got me thinking. It was clear that he honestly believed this; he isn’t getting paid by Big Oil to spread their propaganda. It looks like the line from the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Boxer” that includes the line, “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
If you try hard enough, you can still, to this day, find a few scientists who do not buy the almost universally accepted theory of anthropogenic global warming. It takes diligence, but it can be done, with enough motivation.
How about including the fact that it is the vast majority of academia that has held back the validated / documented / means of producing the one item needed to stop the burning of fossil-based fuels to develop clean electricity – which is what all of that burning is done for.
They “taught” your new acquaintance – that “every means of developing electricity has been found – and, to them, that doesn’t include the specific electric circuit used as the “resonating receiver circuit – found in the billions of AM or FM Radios manufactured since 1900 – when Nikola Tesla invented and Patented the Radio — giving us the information on how to “electronically develop” all of the clean electricity the World would ever need.
and this includes – you.