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The trade-offs here don't seem favourable. Gemany's per-capita energy production has been dropping [0] and I'm going to be waiting to see what their industrial
by roenxi 2y ago
The trade-offs here don't seem favourable. Gemany's per-capita energy production has been dropping [0] and I'm going to be waiting to see what their industrial manufacturing does but I doubt we're going to see China-style explosive growth out of them any time soon.
We've got a very persistent trend across all these ideology-before-prosperity western countries where their energy policy is proving to be a disaster. We're getting literal de-growth of energy and a lot of the political fireworks are probably related to that. Hopefully we see some long-term improvements, but the last decade has not been pretty.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany
- dailykoder 2y ago>We're getting literal de-growth of energy What do you mean by that and why is it bad? Do you mean that we save energy and need less? That doesn't sound bad tbh.
- roenxi 2y agoI mean the amount of energy they can tap into is going down. It means a substantial segment of the population are worse off, because they can't afford stuff/can't afford transport/can't afford to live comfortably. Energy is a general good for achieving a high quality of life.
- dailykoder 2y agoI don't know. I can only speak of germany and my subjective feeling and I don't think it's as bad as people want it to be. Yes we have hard times, but come on, we still live in luxury.
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