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Absent real life threats, first-world people increasingly busy themselves with inventing surrogate problems. Everywhere Nazis are trying to overthrow democracy
by globalreset 4y ago
Absent real life threats, first-world people increasingly busy themselves with inventing surrogate problems.
Everywhere Nazis are trying to overthrow democracy, climate change is going to destroy us all in the next 5 years, viruses go rampage and we need to lock everyone up, now your gas stove is trying to kill you.
While in reality western world has never been so safe and prosperous.
- alar44 4y agoFor real. This is an absolute non issue, not even in comparison to anything else. There are tradeoffs for being a human. We need heat to cook. A few ppb in your home of whatever isn't shit compared to, idk, walking next to a fucking road or being in a city. Electric just offloads it to coal plants which is likely worse. Good grief.
- alliao 4y agodon't know if you've been to Japan or followed any Japanese product, the idea of improvement is possible everywhere and anywhere is a compounding and thus powerful concept. Every year a journey between two cities are shortened by 1% really adds up. I don't see anything wrong with improvements in general, you may be willing to take the risk, but it doesn't hurt that there's some other human beings thinking/working on this issue.
- alar44 4y agoThe externalities to switch the US over to electric are going to be massive compared to any benefits if there even are any.