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mermaidrampage t1_j6vkmel wrote

I'm genuinely conflicted about how I feel about Shell and other oil companies getting into the renewable field. While I agree it's necessary and they have the funding to do it, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth given that they're certainly only doing it because other companies and paved the way to make it a profitable business. Plus the fact that all the money they're dumping into carbon capture is essentially just allowing them to make more money to store the carbon emissions generated by the oil that they produced (and profited heavily off of)...the same oil which created those emissions in the first place. Simultaneously fucked and deviously brilliant when you think about it.

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SwampyThang t1_j6w01ks wrote

It’s not hard, they’re a corporation which is bad to begin with but worst of all, it’s a corporation that actively works to destroy the planet to make money.

Oil corporations are the worst of the worst. Unless they give at least 50% of their profits to renewable energy then screw them all. Nothing they do is about helping.

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OriginalCompetitive t1_j6x46n6 wrote

Green energy isn’t a very profitable business and probably never will be, at least compared to oil. That’s why it’s so challenging to make the switch. So it’s not exactly a prize.

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