[curiousgal]

I find it hilarious that people applaud Norway, whose economy is heavily driven by exporting petroleum gas and crude oil, for leading the world in clean energy adoption.

[ubercore]

What would you like Norway to do? It's been more successful than other countries (generally speaking) insulating its economy from Oil. Would it be better to _not_ also try to drive adoption of clean energy?

[curiousgal]

What? Their economy is highly dependent on fossil fuel exports. Just because the oil is being burned somewhere else does not absolve them from having dug it up in the first place. Everyone is living on the same planet

[tonyedgecombe]

Well, the easy path would have been to keep burning fossil fuels because they have plenty.

Just like the fact I can't stop my neighbours from littering but I can certainly control my own behaviour.

[curiousgal]

My point is that whatever is working for them is not even remotely applicable to 90% of the other countries. They are better than Saudi Arabia and other rich countries, but that's about it.

[lizzylot]

Climate change is a global problem. Fossil fuels burned in Norway or somewhere contributes the same amount of CO2. It's kinda like shipping your plastic trash to another country and have them dumping it into the ocean and going "look how clean we are, 0 plastic trash!"