{"id":128302,"date":"2015-10-14T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/to-cure-climate-change-one-must-create-climate-change.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:52:28","slug":"to-cure-climate-change-one-must-create-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/to-cure-climate-change-one-must-create-climate-change.html","title":{"rendered":"To Cure Climate Change, One Must Create Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

That is apparently the Governor of Alaska's Koan-of-the-Day, as he tells a reporter that climate change is causing major expenses to the state (such as sea-side villages being washed away), so Alaska needs to drill more oil in order to pay for it.<\/p>\n

Which is a huge heaping of cognitive dissonance with a hefty side order of gobsmack.<\/p>\n

Alaska's an interesting place. Basically it's a rural state that's financially dependent on petroleum production for its state income. There is no income tax or<\/i> sales tax — in fact, citizens have been used to getting dividend checks from a share-the-oil-wealth scheme over some decades.<\/p>\n

But the North Slope is drying up, the pipeline is running at 1\/4 capacity, and Shell just decided that its controversial exploration didn't turn up enough (at current prices) to make further extraction worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Alaska is in for some hard times ahead — and would be even without climate change. Suggesting that they can get out of a hole by digging even faster makes no sense, but it's an understandable reaction given the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAlaska Gov. Says State “Urgently” Needs More Oil Drilling to Pay for Climate Change Damage <\/a><\/span>
\nYep. In an interview with the BBC’s Matt McGrath, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker just made perhaps the most remarkable statement I’ve ever encountered. “We are in a significant fiscal challenge. We have villages that are washing away because of the change in the climate,” Walker said. Relocating these villages is…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That is apparently the Governor of Alaska's Koan-of-the-Day, as he tells a reporter that climate change is causing major expenses to the state (such as sea-side villages being washed away), so Alaska needs to drill more oil in order to pay for it. 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