Well, it’s kind of damned if you do damned if you don’t. As you point out, climate change is already fucking us over with respect to food production and that’s only going to get exponentially worse. The less oil we use now the more time we have to develop and implement alternatives. Even if there is some short-term suffering it’s probably net beneficial to the world’s poor in the long run.
Of course we could easily make this transition without hurting the poor if we so chose but the powers that be have no interest in this.
Well, it’s kind of damned if you do damned if you don’t. As you point out, climate change is already fucking us over with respect to food production and that’s only going to get exponentially worse. The less oil we use now the more time we have to develop and implement alternatives. Even if there is some short-term suffering it’s probably net beneficial to the world’s poor in the long run.
Of course we could easily make this transition without hurting the poor if we so chose but the powers that be have no interest in this.