“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term.”
— Carl Sagan
@KashPrime@gonglei89 Indeed! 1,000X this re: corruption! 👆🏻💯
So corrosive across society. Creates a permission structure where literally everyone is working to scramble up into the treehouse while pulling the ladder up behind them. Antithesis of post-WWII values.
@vtchakarova Even if all returned to full operations tomorrow (they won’t), there is still an enormous air bubble in the global system. Few seem to acknowledge this and perhaps it dissipates slowly without harm. That said - no even minimal contingency planning. 🤷🏻♂️
“We’re raising alarm bells right now,”
- American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers
“…The oil market can’t run down to the last drop, like your car can.
Below a certain threshold, pipelines can’t maintain pressure and refineries can’t deliver all the various fuel grades their customers demand….
..Once you get to that point, then you’ll see prices shoot up,..”