This is just so ridiculous and self-contradictory on its face. I understand why people hate this guy so much. Generally emblematic of the intellectual laziness liberals get away with.
There’s a strong environmental case for Democrats taking America’s natural resource wealth seriously as an asset. Center-left parties in other major energy-producing countries do not position themselves as enemies of domestic production. They take the problems of climate change and other pollution issues seriously by investing in measures to reduce long-term domestic consumption of dirty energy and promote new technologies.
Oh interesting! And what dirty energy would that be? Ah, the liberals of "major energy-producing countries", I wonder why he chose the word "energy" instead of "oil". Is it because his entire braindead argument lives or dies on euphemism choice?
American oil production is less carbon-intensive than its competitors in Russia, Iran, Iraq and Venezuela. Supplying it to global markets is a win-win for the economy and the global environment.
This is a favorite weasel tactic from oilfuckers. Talk about how carbon-intensive oil is to produce (negligible) without talking about how much carbon is emitted when the actual produced oil is burned. The produced oil is the whole point! But here, they focus only on the actual production process itself. Pay no attention to the actual fucking thing being produced, the reason the fucking production is happening in the first place! I shit you not, initiatives to reduce the emissions associated with oil production are directly marketed as green technology in petrostates.
To be clear, in any reconciliation with the left, the oil and gas industry will have to do its part, too, and accept climate science.
The oil companies will see us, they will hear us, and so they will have been held accountable.
In this approach to making policy, one starts with an end goal — two degrees of warming; global net zero by 2050 — and asks whether some specific new project is consistent with that goal or not. [...] This mentality explains why green groups continually find themselves opposing bipartisan congressional negotiations to enact permitting reform legislation that would make it easier to build both renewable and fossil fuel infrastructure. A world that was heading to global net zero in 25 years would not enact such a reform, so it’s unacceptable.
Instead of acknowledging physical reality, have you tried debating it instead?