Is Norway the New East India Company?
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
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#2No. Blackrock and Vanguard are.
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#3The analogy doesn't hold for me; Norway is not immune to the consequences of climate change.
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#4The idea that Norway would not starve if she gave up on the oil exports is quite something.
Edit: deleted a bunch of hyperbole
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#5Norway is a tiny country, they are largely irrelevant as far as their consumption habits go regarding climate change at large. They are not even a particularly large exporter of oil, outside of top 10 I think.
The other countries mentioned are much bigger, not to mention that Nigeria is going to see massive population growth this century. You don't want a country that's projected to have 800 million people to get addicted to fossil fuels.
The main point of the article is right of course, the way it's communicated is terrible.
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#6This article is so quick to blame a national government when the problem is squarely on oil and gas companies. It's not like the oil and gas industries haven't lobbied for decades to cover up climate change evidence so that the world would remain dependent on them. They are the ones who ensure that the biggest polluting nations enact any kind of significant climate change reform.
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#7The idea that Norway would not starve if she gave up on the oil exports is quite something. Edit: deleted a bunch of hyperbole
Why would Norway starve without oil exports? Surely they would figure something else out, its neighbors are not sustained on oil exports so why wouldn't Norway be able to too?
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#8The analogy doesn't hold for me; Norway is not immune to the consequences of climate change.
Also there is something to go on about passively encouraging remaining oil dependent but opium wars just doesn't compare.
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#9No. Blackrock and Vanguard are.
How do you consider Blackrock and Vanguard similar?
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#10Reduction in production has to follow reduction in demand. Or as an agreement between all major producers. If Norway was to unilaterally stop production today, the slack would be filled by russian gas.