I find it hilarious that people applaud Norway, whose economy is heavily driven by exporting petroleum gas and crude oil, for leading the world in clean energy adoption.
I find it hilarious that people applaud Norway, whose economy is heavily driven by exporting petroleum gas and crude oil, for leading the world in clean energy adoption.
What would you like Norway to do? It's been more successful than other countries (generally speaking) insulating its economy from Oil. Would it be better to _not_ also try to drive adoption of clean energy?
What? Their economy is highly dependent on fossil fuel exports. Just because the oil is being burned somewhere else does not absolve them from having dug it up in the first place. Everyone is living on the same planet
Wasn't my point. Domestic economy has suffered less from Dutch Disease than a lot of other countries in their position.
My point is that reducing this to "Norwegians still buy cars and cars are bad" is reductive, and if people are going to buy cars, reaching high levels of electric car use is a good outcome.
Now there should also be focus on reducing car use period. But that doesn't mean it was a mistake to electrify transportation in the meantime.
Well, the easy path would have been to keep burning fossil fuels because they have plenty.
Just like the fact I can't stop my neighbours from littering but I can certainly control my own behaviour.
My point is that whatever is working for them is not even remotely applicable to 90% of the other countries. They are better than Saudi Arabia and other rich countries, but that's about it.
Climate change is a global problem. Fossil fuels burned in Norway or somewhere contributes the same amount of CO2. It's kinda like shipping your plastic trash to another country and have them dumping it into the ocean and going "look how clean we are, 0 plastic trash!"
Is the oil company evil for selling me oil or am I evil for buying it. I know which message is more palatable for the average consumer. I also know that without buyers there would be no sellers.