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>Energy is a fundamental need for society to flourish. Energy is needed for basic modern services. Humans have survived a long time without electricity. It co
by Goety 5y ago
>Energy is a fundamental need for society to flourish.
Energy is needed for basic modern services.
Humans have survived a long time without electricity. It could be simpler to 'go without' or 'find a workaround' for a lot of conveniences if we were serious at combating climate change.
- nitrogen 5y agoNot for eight billion people. Just look at what happens when we stop loading trucks for a little while. Now imagine if you expanded all that "going without" to everything that uses energy. You'd have days at most before mass chaos.
- Goety 5y agoCan we engineer a human backbone behind these services to be resistant to corruption and complacency for security sake? We did an ok job with nuclear weapons but only just.
- varajelle 5y agoIn what condition? Without the energy of the fossil fuel, lots of the energy came from human labor. Without it, we wouldn't have gotten rid of slavery. Most people were doing a manual labor, which is also more discriminatory to the weaker ones (e.g. woman) So your just suggesting we go back to the middle ages? No, thank you.
- Goety 5y ago>In what condition? Well that's the question right? Without nuclear there may not be a middle ground as an option for a lot of people. >So your just suggesting we go back to the middle ages? No, thank you. I'm not suggesting anything, simply declaring it an option.
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- enaaem 5y agoBefore electricity we would burn wood to not die in winter. We don’t have any forests left to do that.
- adrianN 5y agoLuckily nowadays we have clean sources of energy, so there is no need to go back to burning wood.