I feel that Canada's very minor turn towards supporting green energy to be a good thing.Oil will always be valuable, and will only become more so the longer we keep it in the ground."Green BS" is the only thing that will stop corporate run governments from turning the lives of our grandchildren into absolute misery.We, as a global society, need to start thinking less about the money that's burning holes in our pockets, and more about long term profits.
North Korea does absolutely *not* have a green and organic environment: most of it was totally deforested during and immediately after the civil war, and has been thoroughly abused since due to almost zero environmental regulations. The sad state of their environment can be seen via satellite. It's so bad that North Korea has repeatedly attempted to secure aid from European environmental reconstruction experts (specifically, reforestation experts from Denmark).Part of the reason the quality of life in North Korea is so low for the citizens outside of Pyeongyang is that it is nearly impossible to subsist off the land, as it has been utterly denuded. Alternative energies like hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, thermal, and tidal are more than sufficient for our energy needs given enough funding for development. These energies would also mean energy security ( a huge issue for the US). The assumption that fossil fuels are the only reliable and cost-effective source of energy is a fallacy that the oil industry spends billions to promote. It hasn't been true since the early 1990s. Sustainable energy efficiency has improved by huge leaps and bounds over the last few decades.
I'd be proud if there were lots of good paying jobs and reasonable rents or housing prices. I guess the way the economy is structured nowadays, it's good for the elites. They can even afford to buy a 6 million dollar green home and brag about it to their yuppy buddies. Good for them, I guess. The only bright spot for good paying jobs was in the oil patch but Turdo ruined that. Though Biden gets his credit too for blocking the Keystone XL pipeline at a time when the world needs oil due to the ban on Russian oil. Well, on the bright side, good for America as their far left stubborness blocking pipelines and drilling for new oil is making the oil price rise. They will get their asses kicked in the midterms the higher the price of fuel is. As for Canada, never put it past a lot of dummies to keep voting for commies making life more and more expensive with their bureaucratic and lame green bs.
I love how you threw in nuclear. Most greeners would flip over that being added. But amongst current technology, natural gas and nuclear are the cleanest. But the others do not produce enough power to power a modern industrial grid. The tech has to be improved a lot in order for that to be able to happen. Using the green options only is very expensive and produces very little making life more unaffordable to people already struggling to make a living and put food for their families on the dinner table. The costly regulations and rules around this along with bad trade deals led to the outsourcing of good paying middle class jobs as well.
Nuclear is currently the best, most viable large scale energy source. There are a lot of crazies, even among those who take the long view: the unreasoning, complete rejection of fission is definitely a problem. Nuclear has issues, but they're not insurmountable if properly considered. As for modern industrial grids, you would be surprised how robust newer generations of renewable sources are. Off shore wind farms can provide a substantial, dependable amount of energy: 20 gigawatts is the current max, but there are project underway that will exceed that (for reference, the average natural gas plant outputs at just under 1 gigawatt). https://www.power-technology.com/features/feature-biggest-wind-farms-in-the-world-texas/Also watt per watt, renewable energy employs more people than traditional fossil fuel based powerplants. In the USA, for every 1 million dollars spent on brown energy, 2.65 full time jobs are created. For every 1 million dollars spent on green energies, 7.65 full time jobs are created.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026499931630709X#:~:text=I%20find%20that%20on%20average,jobs%20per%20%241%20million%20spending.The middle class benefits greatly from green energy. Big oil benefits greatly at the expense of everybody else in promoting old fashioned, obsolete power systems. I know this doesn't jibe with your political views, but I hope that you will at least look at the sources I posted and maybe re-evaluate your somewhat dated knowledge on the topic. Green energy is better for the economy, better for the middle class, better for your health, and better for the world. Them's the facts, kid.
