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We’re spoiled. 3.5 billion years of stored energy from the sun is ripe for the picking just under the surface. We’ll burn all 3.5 billion years of it in 200 or
by 300bps 5y ago
We’re spoiled. 3.5 billion years of stored energy from the sun is ripe for the picking just under the surface.
We’ll burn all 3.5 billion years of it in 200 or so years.
An episode of the BBC Show “Bang Goes the Theory” showed me how ridiculous our lifestyle is when they put a typical English family into a house powered solely by bicyclists. The family had no idea - they just went about their day while a few dozen bicyclists were practically killing themselves so they could run the shower and the kettle at the same time.
I agree with the author, lower consumption is the only real solution.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoHistorically, the role of the bicyclists was performed by slaves, serfs, peasants... If you get rid of the machines, involuntary servitude will be back before you know it, because human nature hasn't changed, yo. Personally, I'd rather that not happen.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoYou are leaving out the point that we have practically limitless energy in the form of solar, wind, and nuclear. It's inevitable, the oil companies can't block it forever.