Comment by ZeroGravitas
3 months ago
I'm highly suspicious of anyone who can't clearly state that fossil fuels are the primary driver of climate change.
When they then claim, against all obvious facts, that there is a clear political consensus on fixing climate change in the USA, that becomes active distrust of their message.
This appears to be another subset of the so-called "Abundance" movement where people avoid the elephant in the room (political power of fossil fuels) and get all screechy about those damn environmentalists and regulators who are the real villains holding us back from solving climate change with the free market.
Meanwhile solar and wind farms are being illegally shut down by the government.
But sure, it's abstract regulation at fault, not the politicians paid off by oil who regularly state that the problem his company is solving isn't even a problem.
It's a company doing carbon removal, the environmental equivalent of snake oil. They claim to have removed 11,234 tonnes of CO2e, which might sound like a lot, but for context, a single seat on a return flight from New York to London produces 1.7 tonnes.
There is only one solution, stop burning fossil fuels. No amount of stuffing agricultural waste down abandoned oil wells will make a dent in the climate crisis.
PS: One of the investors in Charm Industrial also owns half a company that produces equipment for the oil and gas industry.
https://charmindustrial.com/blog/accelerating-carbon-removal...
https://www.exor.com/pages/companies-investments/companies/w...
Regulation is a nebulous term, dozens of posts about it in here and no one defined regulation, nevermind agreed on a definition of regulation.
On one side, It’s a useful buzz word for libertarians to attack, saying these prevent companies doing anything they want constantly, which Libs believe would help the world.
Meanwhile it seems less ideological comments see shades of effectiveness in good vs bad regulations. There’s also shades of law vs regulation, enforcement laxity, hidden purposes behind regs supposed reasons, etc.
It’s a tangled web and HN loves debating regulations more than almost anything!
One regulation definition is the international building code. Due to this regulation houses cost more than twice as much to build.
Thus we get more homeless people, which creates more bureaucracy trying to solve the homeless problem created by the housing bureaucracy.