And it wasn't enough power. Economic development is largely built on increasing accessible power. We have alternatives to coal and oil now, but back in the 190

And it wasn't enough power. Economic development is largely built on increasing accessible power. We have alternatives to coal and oil now, but back in the 1900s we didn't. Those are both made from dead trees, which for millions of years simply didn't rot; this simultaneously cooled the planet down, dramatically weakening hurricane patterns for all time until... now, while also storing millions of years' worth of solar power for our use. A lot of otherwise habitable planets very likely didn't go through that phase.