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Well this is really dumb lol
You think the economy is 100% oil?
If we stop subsidizing those fucks and start subsidizing renewables instead, we'd still have high gdp without oil
nope
not enough lithium and copper on earth to do that
you could triple nuclear power plants and reorganize cities to replace cars with bikes as often as possible, but an economy without oil is utopian.
Yeah, luckily we're seeing a decoupling of fossil fuels and general growth
Do some research on windmill manufacturing and waste and rare earth mineral mining for solar. It's super scary. Nuclear or oil. That's the only reasonable choice we have at scale right now until major new technologies are found.
Lol do some research at Alt-Right YouTube University? Lies and propaganda
There have to be people who upload on these subjects and aren't related to Dennis Prager
Yeah and they all say similar to this:
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/28/are-rare-earths-used-in-solar-panels/
Besides, remember that you're comparing localized pollution with globalized pollution:
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00001-6
Even in a worst-case scenario, polluting one area to save the planet is a no-brainer tradeoff.