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0 pointsmonkeydreams2y ago0 comments

I was with you 100% until this point:

> it's a full on ecosystem that experiences impacts from laying large farms on top of it.

You think that the Saudi government, with the extremist clerics holding a knife to their throats, their citizenry on life-long unemployment welfare, with their drive to continue to make climate change worse, who spill oil on the sand and billow smoke into their skies, give one tiny iota of a shit about a delicate desert ecosystem?

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pyuser5832y ago· 1 in thread

The point is you can’t rely on the desert to simply be sunny.

If you screw up the ecosystem, the result is haze, mist, and other obstacles to solar power, not to mention animal and human interference.

From what I understand, Saudi oil produces less carbon than other types of oil. So the Saudis are expecting they will be among the last to shut down - which a reasonable assumption.

Otherwise you would be shutting down a lower carbon fuel in favor of higher carbon fuel.

sfn422y ago

Oil is more than fuel. We have to solve a lot more problems than fuel before we can stop pumping oil.

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