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Chevron boss says the $300 billion oil giant has changed life on Earth for the better: ‘We’re not selling a product that is evil’ (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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Says exec of company that has objectively caused more environmental harm to the world than any others

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OTOH, demand for something generally increases the amount of funding available for developing the technology associated with that thing. Yes, we're more advanced now than we were in the 70s, but we probably lost a solid twenty-thirty years of demand-driven gradual progress due to regressive administrations prioritizing and subsidizing fossil dependency.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

demand for something generally increases the amount of funding available for developing the technology associated with that thing

As evidence of this, take note of the dramatic decline in the price of photovoltaic power since people actually started investing in it in 2009.

I imagine we'd have had that sort of drop in the late 1980s if we didn't elect the senile movie star.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We can imagine as much as we like. The technology and manufacturing processes simply didn't exist back then.