oil-exporting countries’ willingness to acknowledge that the era of fossil fuels must come to an end
it underscored that talk is cheap, and they're confident that even if they say it, nothing will come of it
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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It took nearly 30 years for them to even say it, even thou everybody knew it. Talk is cheap, but not that cheap. This is going to be used in many countries to push for faster anti fossil fuel action.
I certainly hope so.
It doesn't really seem like progress in my mind - fossil fuel producers are just switching strategy from denial to "menthol is better for you than regular cigarettes." They aren't cutting production, and the work remains for us to regulate their shitty product.
Russia the second largest oil producer is currently sanctioned rather heavily making it harder for them to buy high end oil equipment.
The Middle East sees Yemen attacking ships including tankers nowadays. The Middle East has a lot of oil and that might be cut off.
At the same time we know oil is bad and we have great alternatives mainly in transport with trains, bicycles and so forth and also worse ones like EVs. So if we see extraordinarily high oil prices, we can realistically reduce consumption. That is a big change.
Still too little too late
Too late. When the climate starts killing millions it will be remembered who was dragging their feet.
That's a choice. We can still limit the temperature increase
We can and should, but there's a list of names of people / families / companies who continue to substantially contribute to this planet-scale problem.
Those names are in stone and will not be forgotten, no matter the platitudes and urgency in the 11th hour.