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¿Question #229373?
Blinko: Since we changed the definition of a USA recession, when do we change the definition of renewable energy and put coal and oil and gas back in that category? It is renewable, just a much longer time frame.

PolarDad: I like iced tea
0Shea0: There is a huge push for claiming "just as bad!" In trying to solve this. If a greener energy pollutes 20% (number straight from my ass) less than oil and gas, you can point at piles and piles of pollution still because it is still generating waste. However the scale of that 20% is a huge net gain with the potential for getting even cleaner over time. For some reason people use this to say we just need to hunker down and driil more oil and dig more coal....I don't get it.
Derang3d: Hmm while a recession is self-perpetuating to an extent, renewable energy isn't. So no. To answer the question underneath tho, well yeah bad things are bad, and good things are often just bad things with good PR. All you can do is clean your own bit of sidewalk, however messed up the rest of the worlds' sidewalks are :/. ('s bit of a difficult issue to just have a convo about in a medium like this :))
Blinko: I am for protecting the environment, I just think those in charge are short-sighted and profit driven. Remember when all traffic barrels required blinking lights powered by lead batteries. Great for safety, terrible for the environment as mountains of spent lead batteries were at every construction company yard. While pushing better energy solutions, we need to address ways to deal with their pollution. Used/old car batteries, solar panels, carbon turbine blades have to go somewhere.
mattomaw: The renewable energy companies are just as bad as the fossil fuel companies. Profit is the only real consideration, and it is the need for profit that is the real problem. I think anyway. It is a very complex subject!
Woelf: Oil, gas, and coal companies already did that decades ago, as part of their massive scheme to fuck over 99.9% of everyone on this planet in the name of profits.
imyourskribe: This question makes me feel dirty