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Other people will explain why you are wrong to be concerned. However your concern is indicative of the concerns of a significant, potentially majority, of peopl
by samwillis 4y ago
Other people will explain why you are wrong to be concerned. However your concern is indicative of the concerns of a significant, potentially majority, of people. It shows how as a society we don't do messaging about this sort of thing well enough. I think thats an important take away.
- politician 4y agoWe do a bad job of explaining to residents of our dense population centers how much energy is required to run their city for a single day, where it comes from, and how much it costs to produce.
- wumpus 4y agoDon't rural dwellers use more energy, per capita?
- politician 4y agoPer capita is a poor way of looking at the scope of this particular problem. We can service that one farm with several thousand gallons of diesel. It’s an understandable power generation problem with units normal people understand. Powering a city is at another entirely different scale, and “diesel” doesn’t come close to addressing the magnitude of that problem.
- BurningFrog 4y agoTo oversimplify, I think the default posture in western society has become "let's not do anything, in case it goes wrong". People who think like that are seen as serious people who don't foolishly ignore all possible negative consequences. I, as the reader might guess by now, don't have high hopes for societies that function this way.
- salawat 4y agoNooo... The default is "do your due diligence". As it turns out, there's a LOT more we can do now (that is actually hard work to boot) than we've necessarily been able to do before. If you actually take the phrase "reasonably forseeable" seriously, I assure you, chasing down those nasty little details and feeding them through the math takes a hot minute.