alleycat@feddit.detocollapse of the old society@slrpnk.net•Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and manufacturing booms are pushing the US power grid to the brink and utilities can't keep upEnglish
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7 months agoAlso found it hard to justify being an electrician when electric cables need plastic insulation. Hard to separate electrical needs from the oil industry when the insulating material comes from the oil industry.
That’s a pretty extreme take. Industrial plastics are one of the better uses for oil. It’s fossil fuels and single use plastics that we have to eliminate.
No one but complete morons are asking to specifically make a product by emitting carbon dioxide. No company is emitting co2 for “the global citizens”. They make products to earn money. Emissions are an avoidable by-product no one asked for.