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> But at what cost? I can’t help thinking of the satirical cartoon “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing” ;)
by throw-qqqqq 1y ago
> But at what cost?
I can’t help thinking of the satirical cartoon “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing” ;)
- nandomrumber 1y agoThere’s no universe where expensive energy and unavailable housing is a better world. There’s no universe where importing huge numbers of unskilled migrants depended on the state is a better world.
- boxed 1y ago> There’s no universe where expensive energy and unavailable housing is a better world. But there is a world where solar power plus battery storage is so much cheaper than coal that it's going to be cleaned up AND lower price of electricity just by market forces.
- ohdeargodno 1y ago[dead]
- thinkcontext 1y agoFossil fuels have a host of nasty externalities aside from climate change that are greatly lessened by cleaner sources of energy. For example, cutting down on the 10s of millions of lives that are shortened and made worse by fossil fuel pollution could be part of a better world. In many places wind and solar are now cheaper than fossil fuels. This can particularly be seen in the past year countries like Pakistan, India, South Africa, etc greatly expanding their use of solar in particular. Not sure what immigration has to do with energy policy.
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoAnd the other one where the people sit in the cave sheltering from something and one says "But for one beautiful moment we produced a lot of value for the shareholders."