"I think it's a weak argument. It's like saying, if we can't do it (guns, drugs, child pornography, cryptomining, whatever), someone else will do it, then it might as well do it," Overland said. "Norway uses this argument a lot about their oil, saying that it is cleaner than other oils and that it is better for the oil to be produced by a democracy than by authoritarian countries. From a climate point of view, this argument doesn't make much sense.