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What's crazy about it?

• almost_usual 6y ago
  It’s a contradiction, the world is already struggling with our current energy consumption rates as we improve our energy infrastructure. But we use the new infrastructure to justify using more. There is not dream utopia of this all going away with green technology. We’ll find a way to make things worse more efficiently. There should be forcing functions that make excess consumption more costly, taxes, etc.
  • wetmore 6y ago
    It's harm reduction.
    • almost_usual 6y ago
      Which is a good excuse for someone to justify why they can use more tomorrow than yesterday.
  • spillguard 6y ago
    Just to clarify - it seems that your first comment says that "it's crazy to call excess consumption green, even if your excess consumption uses clean energy", and your second comment says that "it's crazy that we allow excess consumption in the first place"?
    • eeZah7Ux 6y ago
      It's a well documented deflection strategy: Instead of decreasing unnecessary consumption, whole industries have been steering the popular opinion into thinking that recycling and lowering emissions is good enough. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
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    • almost_usual 6y ago
      Imagine if everyone on Earth could consume as much as they wanted, how could this be green? It doesn’t make sense. It’s really not up to humans though, how our planet reacts will eventually be the forcing function.