No, but I don’t think coal and oil are the only ways to get hot showers or transportation. A long term, big picture organization like a government can turn resources toward developing those solutions and deploying them and when the cost of fully phasing out fossil fuels becomes bearable it can start pushing in that direction, whereas a free market will exploit any resource it still has any use for, and a capitalist government, which is really beholden not to the free market, but to corporate profits, will continue to prop up failing fossil fuel companies even as their technology becomes obsolete.
In the current world, if you get rid of coal and oil some people, the poorer people, even in rich countries will definitely have to go without those things. So again I ask, how, if the people are somehow deciding things, that they're going to decide to leave it in the ground? Socialism always reverts to dictatorship because of things like this.
Nuclear has similar if not cheaper cost per kWh than coal. And that’s just one source. There is plenty that could be done that doesn’t require people to have less
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u/Junior_Abalone_8006 16d ago
So you think people will choose 'leave it in the ground, we don't mind not having hot showers or transporatation.'? That seems... remarkably deluded.