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This is the usual argument. Here's the problem: There's always another thing. always. In the history of the world, we go from thing to thing to thing, always te

This is the usual argument. Here's the problem: There's always another thing. always. In the history of the world, we go from thing to thing to thing, always teetering on the edge. So if you always say "hey, just doin it for this crisis, we'll go back to normal later", you'll be doing it forever. EIther we make it without that, or truthfully, we aren't goign to make it as a species over time.

ethbro 10y ago
How would we have industrialized without massive amounts of coal and oil-fueled power? Sometimes there are stages you must go through in order to reach the other side (e.g. an excess energy future where we can afford to research and pump out solar panels).