Are you OK with the Democratic Congresspeople voting for the Keystone Pipeline?

[TheKentuckian]

296. Hoping for magic future fixes does not address the actual threat no matter how well intentioned.

You are damn near a generation out, at best with that being fantasy because who is trying to do any such thing but rather as much as they can as cheaply as possible. Add in development and implementation and you are most likely solving yesterday's problems tomorrow.

It is unavoidable that the threat to the already under more than extreme duress water supply is magnifying while this approach plays out.
In fact, if one were serious about safe(r) forms of transport they would cut off and putting gremlins in the gears of unsafe ones and allow necessity to be the mother of invention instead of doing nothing but allowing threats to increase. "Who could have seen this coming" and some resigned hand wringing won't mean a thing when the shit hits the fan.

It is sort of like the Chinese "agreeing" to only ramp up the pollution for another 15-16 years. Have you out seen what it looks like on a good day with the factories on shutdown now? That'll fix it, that's the ticket.