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Well, the easy path would have been to keep burning fossil fuels because they have plenty.

Just like the fact I can't stop my neighbours from littering but I can certainly control my own behaviour.

My point is that whatever is working for them is not even remotely applicable to 90% of the other countries. They are better than Saudi Arabia and other rich countries, but that's about it.

Climate change is a global problem. Fossil fuels burned in Norway or somewhere contributes the same amount of CO2. It's kinda like shipping your plastic trash to another country and have them dumping it into the ocean and going "look how clean we are, 0 plastic trash!"

Is the oil company evil for selling me oil or am I evil for buying it. I know which message is more palatable for the average consumer. I also know that without buyers there would be no sellers.

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