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The insanity of digging up stuff that has stored several millennia of sunlight and releasing byproducts when used NOW still staggers me
by bevenhall 3y ago
The insanity of digging up stuff that has stored several millennia of sunlight and releasing byproducts when used NOW still staggers me
- jareklupinski 3y agoi think that stuff is the only reason we have a chance to get off this rock what other species out there could claim a millions-of-years old energy store that has been conveniently brewing right beneath their feet, just ripe to exploit when they finally have the brain cells to bang together and make the spark? today we have better stuff to burn and imo we should move to renewables anyway, but long tails and sins of our fathers...
- paleotrope 3y agoAnother potential component of the "Great Filter"
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