This is a complex issue, no way around it, and I'm not an expert in the field. My thought in response to this is to consider the way coal, oil, copper, uranium,

This is a complex issue, no way around it, and I'm not an expert in the field. My thought in response to this is to consider the way coal, oil, copper, uranium, silicon, [...] shape human activity and culture. More specifically, I wonder about: - major oil spills - "mining towns," boom & bust - generally any of the costs associated with resource extraction (copper's mined with diesel, they say) It's complex because it's hard to tell if any of us are making apples-to-apples comparisons in these discussions (broadly). And... I hope we figure it out before our current energy generation makes an entire planet uninhabitable.