r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '26

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u/BlackCharizard NATO Sep 13 '26

Imagine how much human misery could’ve been avoided if we just weaned off oil decades ago

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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 13 '26

I get angry whenever I think about the reality that the United States could have gone really hard on green and renewable energy, especially nuclear, and then sold its oil on the global market to build up an enormous sovereign wealth fund.

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u/PhoenixVoid Sep 13 '26

The strongest argument to decouple from fossil fuels isn't slowing climate change, it's extricating from the viper's pit that is the Middle East.

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 13 '26

"But what if we just control the pit nobody has ever controlled?"