2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support fracking, or coal? [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)you add a complaint that DU allows respondents to reject both options. If the options are two things I do not care for, do not ask me to support one of them if your question is actually 'which are you more prone to accept as stop gap'.
Your verbiage is aggressively personal, and demands not an acceptance of a reality but that respondents declare support for the two options we are in fact going to have to move away from eventually. What I accept as the only possible current option is not necessarily what I support or seek as objective. It's what I'm stuck with.
But your poll and thread says 'Declare your support for one of these two things or you are stupid'. You preclude nuance, process, regional differences, progress being made and insist on people stating they are happy with the very things we seek to bring to an end, be that in a few years or several or many, fossil fuels come to an end one day. What I support is not being left holding an empty energy bag when that happens. That means not putting all our eggs into your fossil basket.