• p1mrx@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Electricity is essential to decarbonization. Do you have any idea how destructive it would be for billions of humans to go live in the woods? Most people would starve or freeze to death, but if that didn’t happen then the trees would be gone within a generation.

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      1 year ago

      ‘Electricity is essential…’

      No it’s not, it never was. We’ve just become dependent upon it, unfortunately including myself.

      Somehow humans lived for over 100,000 years without electricity just fine. Now within the past 200 years we done cranked the energy consumption up by an order or three of magnitude, and sit with our thumbs up our butts and wonder what’s wrong.

      We are what’s wrong, humans (yes I’ll include myself in this criticism) are a cancer on this planet. Even if we move to Mars, we’ll still be a cancer. We’re a nasty trashy species that has barely even set foot on the moon, but somehow we already got over 100 bags of human waste on the moon.

      Electricity isn’t the answer, it’s the problem.

      Space isn’t the answer, it’ll be our folly.

      Our planet means more to us than $$$…

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        Now within the past 200 years we done cranked the energy consumption up by an order or three of magnitude

        I agree that reducing the human population by a few orders of magnitude would make it possible to live off the land, use less energy, and protect the environment. Are you volunteering to be among the billions who die?