I agree with that, too. With a strong exception to the idea, we're "wasting time" building solar and wind power. Your implication doesn't negate other implications, such as what I brought up.
Non-growth and/or de-growth can't happen under the current societal structure so as that is changed there's no reason not to move toward clean energy while society is being restructured. It's ludicrous to say "hey everyone, we need to change society so keep burning fossil fuels that helped create the problem and if we continue to do that, all will be well with the world- keep drinking the poison and it will no longer be poison'. More attention on the upcoming problems (easily made using currently happening effects of global warming) needs to become the norm, not the exception. But with most large media owned by those who've grown rich by not allowing such stories to be public knowledge, most people won't/don't realize the danger of a system (capitalism) that requires continued growth to avoid collapse. Cheap isn't cheap when buying shiny new baubles and gas sucking vehicles means destruction of the environment that supports us all. But saying that solar and wind bring about the same harmful consequences as burning fossil fuels for energy is what Exxon Mobile and other fossil fuel producers have been claiming since the 1970s. Exxon's own scientists told management in the 1960s that burning oil and coal for energy would increase CO2 in the atmosphere to levels that would kill us off, but management decided that huge amounts of short-term profit was more important than people and their scientists' own findings were hidden. Yes, they might destroy the world but there's money to be squeezed out of people while that happens...
I follow what B posts but this time he took the side of fossil fuel companies being necessary to obtain the changes needed so let's not change at all. And used outdated "facts" to support his thesis. I expected better from "B". Should we wait until fossil fuels run out and have mass chaos or should we phase them out while turning to clen energy AND allow people time to learn the threat of wasting energy?
What will our descendants (should anyone be left) say about our generation's stupidity of not using the economic and technical solutions that already exist (and they do, if you or B or anyone else cared to look at them) and instead just dug ourselves a larger mass burial pit? That we were a stupid group of people to allow such atrocities to continue rather than taking sensible, available measures that work?
