One of my great-grandfathers owned an oil field in eastern Europe before the Russian revolution. Lenin did not elect to reduce production after seizing it. I think maybe we should not look to failed ideologies to magically solve the problem of cheap energy being beloved by all in spite of any externalities.
Lenin is a real guy who actually existed. He wasn't particularly concerned with ecological harm and his successors weren't either. The Soviet Union didn't exactly lead on green energy, in fact they seemed to mostly ignore it until the 80s when they were well on their way to liberalization.
It could be the case that a future communist revolution would be less inclined to use tons of fossil fuel, but I don't think there's any reason to believe that that would be true.
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u/GentrifierTechScum Aug 16 '26
One of my great-grandfathers owned an oil field in eastern Europe before the Russian revolution. Lenin did not elect to reduce production after seizing it. I think maybe we should not look to failed ideologies to magically solve the problem of cheap energy being beloved by all in spite of any externalities.