There's plenty of oil in the world. Why do we feel the need to go after every last drop in the United States?
It'll still be there in 100 years, if we need it.
It'll still be there in 100 years, if we need it.
Furthermore, roughly half of Americans don't believe this is even a problem, and don't care about what any scientists tell them, because their religious leaders and favorite politicians tell them otherwise.
No, we wouldn't, nor should we. The reason is democracy: if the people in that space station have a democratic government, and more than half of them vote for leaders who promise them they can keep their shooting range, no matter how dangerous, well then everyone else just has to live with it.
Hopefully, it's obvious here that democracy only really works when the citizens are smart enough to use it well. The problem is that, in many cases, they just aren't, which is what we're seeing now.
Fully agree. This is not an issue where we just have to hope that one day someone in charge will fix it.
Do you use electricity?
Do you own anything plastic?
What about metal?
I think you'll find if you ask yourself these questions you will find that the answer to your rhetorical question was within you all along!
Mr Einstein would be so disappointed.
In other news, Americans stopped buying sedans because they want bigger vehicles.
it's even worth it to burn some off just to make sure you get any at all[0]
[0]https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/05/1405...
The poster child of this approach is the Saudi Arabia oil trading partnership of decades, where the increasingly wealthy Saudi state oil company have a control and share of profits that increases over time. Read a few wikipedia articles or this :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_...
It is true however, that Venezuala appears to be headed to breaking this pattern. It is related to the Hugo Chaves / Cuba / SAmerican Marxism fights and there are a lot of hard liners on both sides.
That sounds familiar? Oh, wait: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-defends-organi...
>“The Venezuelan Navy aggressively stopped ExxonMobil contracted vessels operating under an oil exploration agreement with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in its Exclusive Economic Zone,” he said, saying Guyana had the right to explore there and urging Venezuela to respect international law and its neighbors’ rights.[0]
[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guyana-venezuela-oil/vene...
Two months later Donald Trump is trying to oust Maduro for being 'undemocratically elected' while simultaneously praising communist Dictators in South East/East Asia.
Yeah, has nothing to do with American oil interests.