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> Fossil fuels have - at the same time as the pollution - caused a huge improvement of living standards. And before that we used Whale oil, which we got throug
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
> Fossil fuels have - at the same time as the pollution - caused a huge improvement of living standards.
And before that we used Whale oil, which we got through a global slaughter of whales and we nearly drove them to extinction. Then it was time to move on.
- gruez 3y agoThere's a huge difference between migrating off something because there's something objectively better (oil is cleaner and cheaper compared to whale oil), and migrating off something for environmental reasons. The former doesn't require any sacrifices and will happen voluntarily. The same can't be said for the latter.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agowhat do you mean by oil is cleaner? Whale oil is food, while petrochemicals are a poison