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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trying to fix the climate with authoritarianism is roughly comparable to fixing a leaky faucet by burning down the house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I do not understand how climate change is analogous to a leaky faucet with respect to anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But you did understand the "burn down the house" part, right? Because that's all I really need from you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes you have to intentionally burn some stuff to create a firebreak and save a lot more other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh huh. But here, you're burning down the house because it has a leaky faucet.

Authoritarian bullshit is a completely unreasonable response to this problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

A little bit of authoritarianism is what we need now to mitigate climate change and avoid the much worse kind of authoritarianism we will be in for as climate change gets worse. There's no hippy la-la conscious capitalism way out of this situation.