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As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it's stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you're replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you're keen to point out, it's useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

What's dumb is getting oil just to burn it is stupid. There are better ways now but momentum is hard to overcome.