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Fossil fuels provide us with cheap energy and the drawback (C02 emmissions) can be dealt with via carbon sequestration. Social media is alcohol for narcissists

Fossil fuels provide us with cheap energy and the drawback (C02 emmissions) can be dealt with via carbon sequestration. Social media is alcohol for narcissists. It provides very little utility or value, and the drawbacks (depression, FOMO, etc) far outweigh any "benefit". Don't compare apples and oranges.

neuronic 4y ago
Ah yes, the famous carbon sequestration technologies we are efficiently applying all over the world right now which have entirely prevented any effects of climate change. Amazing job everyone! /s
- prottog 4y ago
  Literally billions of lives have been lifted out of poverty due to fossil fuels providing cheap energy. As long as we continue to have an abundance of energy, the effects of climate change will be successfully mitigated. People love to harp on fossil fuels but don't seem to want to admit that without it, everyone on the planet would still be suffering pre-industrial living standards and there would be vastly fewer of us.
- korroziya 4y ago
  I love how as soon as a technology appears which will allow us to keep using a cheap, dense, portable, reliable form of energy, the left-wing zealots come out of the woodwork to bitch and moan because it goes against their narrative and special interests.
ericd 4y ago
If you study sequestration at all, you’ll find that it’s not going to be a silver bullet. It’ll be a small contributor, but reduction to zero is going to have to do most of the heavy lifting.
- korroziya 4y ago
  If you study renewables at all, you’ll find that it’s not going to be a silver bullet.
  - ericd 4y ago
    I agree, it'll take a combination of of things. But sequestration looks like it will be a much smaller part of the equation than renewables.
brigandish 4y ago
That seems self contradictory as you're telling us this via a social network. If there really is very little utility or value that would suggest your comment to be of the same nature, which should then prompt a question as to why you posted it. Ironically, narcissism could explain that, but the alternative explanation is that there is value there, we just need to be more careful with it than we have been.
- korroziya 4y ago
  >That seems self contradictory as you're telling us this via a social network HN does not equal TikTok. You don't have an actual argument, you're just buttmad because you don't like the fact that I'm correct.
  - brigandish 4y ago
    I'm going to correct myself and go with narcissism as the reason for your comments, which, again ironically, gives them some value.
    - korroziya 4y ago
      Fuck you too buddy.
alex_duf 4y ago
Both were produced because there was money to be made, both have at least some negative effect on society. Granted, the scale of the problems are different, and the axis onto which they act is also different. But I stand by my comparison.

neuronic 4y ago

Ah yes, the famous carbon sequestration technologies we are efficiently applying all over the world right now which have entirely prevented any effects of climate change. Amazing job everyone! /s

prottog 4y ago
Literally billions of lives have been lifted out of poverty due to fossil fuels providing cheap energy. As long as we continue to have an abundance of energy, the effects of climate change will be successfully mitigated. People love to harp on fossil fuels but don't seem to want to admit that without it, everyone on the planet would still be suffering pre-industrial living standards and there would be vastly fewer of us.
korroziya 4y ago
I love how as soon as a technology appears which will allow us to keep using a cheap, dense, portable, reliable form of energy, the left-wing zealots come out of the woodwork to bitch and moan because it goes against their narrative and special interests.

ericd 4y ago

If you study sequestration at all, you’ll find that it’s not going to be a silver bullet. It’ll be a small contributor, but reduction to zero is going to have to do most of the heavy lifting.

korroziya 4y ago
If you study renewables at all, you’ll find that it’s not going to be a silver bullet.
- ericd 4y ago
  I agree, it'll take a combination of of things. But sequestration looks like it will be a much smaller part of the equation than renewables.

brigandish 4y ago

That seems self contradictory as you're telling us this via a social network. If there really is very little utility or value that would suggest your comment to be of the same nature, which should then prompt a question as to why you posted it. Ironically, narcissism could explain that, but the alternative explanation is that there is value there, we just need to be more careful with it than we have been.

korroziya 4y ago
>That seems self contradictory as you're telling us this via a social network HN does not equal TikTok. You don't have an actual argument, you're just buttmad because you don't like the fact that I'm correct.
- brigandish 4y ago
  I'm going to correct myself and go with narcissism as the reason for your comments, which, again ironically, gives them some value.
  - korroziya 4y ago
    Fuck you too buddy.

alex_duf 4y ago

Both were produced because there was money to be made, both have at least some negative effect on society. Granted, the scale of the problems are different, and the axis onto which they act is also different. But I stand by my comparison.