Hydration rule - eviltoast
  • Alteon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The shittiest part about it, is they don’t even care. If you’ve ever seen interviews with these people, it’s like interviewing a Bond villain… The only thing that matters to them is their own greed.

    Anybody that even gets involved with the industry is just as bad. It’s kind of funny, as an engineer, we have an ethical creed that we’re supposed to follow… How any sort of petroleum engineer is able to ethically work in the petroleum industry is beyond me.

    • Maslo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Everyone knows refineries produce gas for their cars. Less people know refineries produce all the plastics too. Even fewer people realize an alarming amount of the industrial fertilizers we use to keep billions of people from starving to death comes directly from oil.

      We. Are. Stuck.

      Until we figure out how to repair all the scorched dirt we killed through overfarming that can no longer grow plants without heaps of fertilizer. Until we find some other process to produce massive amounts of plant food. Until we find some other way to fill billions of mouths we really CANT stop drilling or people die.

      I’m all for eat the rich but they’re more like an delicacy, not a staple diet for half the world. We need solutions along with all the ‘tear it down.’ You know who wouldn’t starve if we stopped drilling immediately? The rich