I guess my point is more that no matter how “innocuous” it seems, someone gets sacrificed (try being poor or homeless when your city if laser focused on tourist dollars and nothing else), and when things change, things fall apart horribly, and the people who had it good before suddenly need someone to blame.
Oil isn’t all bad. Yes, we need to use much less than we do. Yes we need to find alternatives, but I am also thankful to be living in a world where I don’t have to rely that the person in charge of my vaccine syringe boild it long enough to keep sterile.
But because we as a world gave this commodity and industry so much power, we’re in a crisis because everything they do is to protect themselves, not the future.
It’s a capitalism problem, far more than the thing itself. Commodifying something and allowing that to become the linchpin of your entire society and that society will create horrors to sustain it.
