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Yeah of course would you'd need to redefine civilization as "inudstrial" civilization for my argumentn to make sense. Still, check out parent post: https://news
by spurgu 6y ago
Yeah of course would you'd need to redefine civilization as "inudstrial" civilization for my argumentn to make sense. Still, check out parent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563017
tl;dr: we've kickstarted civilization due to our harnessing of energy. If the venusians didn't have that option they would've probably lived as cavemen and couldn't have prevented or foreseen the disaster.
- nvader 6y agoUnless the disaster was self-inflicted by the Venusians, when they unleashed the sequestered carbon by harvesting energy. This is one of the reasons this story sticks in my mind.