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Fossil fuels enabled overconsumption of resources at levels never before possible. Can't wait for next year's Earth Overshoot Day! Also, CFCs enabled some true
by Forbo 4y ago
Fossil fuels enabled overconsumption of resources at levels never before possible. Can't wait for next year's Earth Overshoot Day! Also, CFCs enabled some true miracles in refrigeration, we shouldn't demonize them. Damned bleeding heart tree huggers ruin everything. >:-(
- korroziya 4y agoJust curious, how many "daily" deaths are there from extracting gas out of the ground?
- Forbo 4y agoDepends, do you want to count the mass extinction event that we've created? If so, you're really not going to like the answer.
- korroziya 4y agoIt's sad that HN has been infested with this level of sensationalist ridiculouness.
- Forbo 4y agoAcknowledging the mass extinction event that we caused is sensationalism? We've completely fucked the climate in a bad way, and are triggering the complete destruction of entire species on a daily basis. Denying that is the actual ridiciulousness. So I will ridicule as I please.
- ben_w 4y agoDaily? Odd unit given Fukushima was over a decade ago. Also, "extracting" gas would compare to mining uranium from the ground, not to running a plant. I'm only finding US statistics for the "extracting" part, and that looks like about 1000 dead in just the USA, just with regard to oil and gas extraction, in the last decade. But, given your style and the newness of your account, I find it very hard to trust that you're really "just curious", rather than using the phrase to create rhetorical affect.
- panick21_ 4y agoWhy is it 'overcompensation'? In fact we should consume even more, its totally fine, we just need to do it with nuclear breeder plants. Energy isn't practically limited. In terms of total resource in vs energy out nuclear is fantastic. And if we actually made some series advances it would be insanely so.