“Did you ever hear of a solar panel?” she recalls the Uber driver asking her and her friends.
BASED DRIVER
imagine studying petroleum engineering as your world Burns. should of got a useful degree like art or feminist studies
Hilariously, as soon as it became clear the grift wasn't there one of the interviewees is now in Environmental conservation.
Almost as if the large scale material structure of the economy affects people's actions. I wonder if anyone thought of that before?
"Oh, you lost your job on the oil platform? Why didn't you learn to code?"
“Did you ever hear of a solar panel?” she recalls the Uber driver asking her and her friends.
POPPING OFF AS I READ THIS ARTICLE HOLY SHIT
*it is really hard to pity any of these fuckers when they say shit like
But Mr. Zagurski, 23, said the oil and gas industry will bounce back just as it has many times over the last century despite popular notions that the pandemic would permanently reduce energy consuming habits. “Demand is going to come back,” he said. “Let’s be honest here, how many things in our daily lives have some kind of a petroleum-based product in them.”
I mean, yes, plastics are important and shit. They also take up 4% of global fossil fuel production
Plastics are not that important, we could have good lives without plastics.
Depends on your definition of a good life, I guess. Mine involves L5 colonies.
That would be nice, yes, absolutely we don't need polyester clothing or microbeads or all the plastic junk that clutters modern homes, but that's a very small subset of plastics. And I'd like to not have to use lead piping.
I'm including things like...say...non-plant based rubber, the essential high end composites we absolutely need for things like electronics and machinery, you know, CO2 scrubbers.
Much of this can be gotten from plants, but climate change looks to lower global agricultural yields by at least 60%, so a very very small percentage of oil extraction will have to continue or we all die.
I'm with you that we will need a bit of the chemical technologies we've developed since the mid-20th century. But we'll only need a small fraction of what we produce/consume/demand today.
I'm a geophysics soon-to-be grad, and I'm glad I have the option to go into renewables and environmental consulting, cuz I don't know what I'd do if I had to be in the petroleum industry. I took a class on it and the professor was an ex-Exxon well analyst who was the snottiest, pompous elitist I've ever met. She dug wells in sudan, drilling into lake Tchad (which is a unesco world heritage site).
Fuck that shit.
oh no, these poor college graduates with petrochemical degrees. I feel so bad for them, how could they have possibly known that there were risks and downsides associated with destroying the earth for profit?
I'm not going to read the article, so I'm going to assume that apropos of nothing, she started complaining to her Uber driver about how hard it was for her to find a 7 figure job in the petrochemical industry.
they don't even give that detail. just "she was also owned by an Uber driver"
uncritical support of that uber driver should've crashed the car right then and there
Shoulda done geology in school so I could be dabbing on petro-scum from a primitive hut in the Gifford Pinchot rn.
Had these people been alive in the 80s, they clearly would also have had the temerity to tell Welsh miners to "get on their bike" and "find work"
