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Shh, we have to ignore all environmental externalities other than CO2 emissions caused by burning petroleum products. Otherwise we would have to face the fact
by roflc0ptic 14y ago
Shh, we have to ignore all environmental externalities other than CO2 emissions caused by burning petroleum products. Otherwise we would have to face the fact that our lifestyles are directly at odds with the health of the planet we live on.
Industrial civilization is engaged in a war against entropy which it is destined to lose.
- mikeash 14y agoLife is engaged in a war against entropy which it is destined to lose.
- roflc0ptic 14y agoSure, but my statement sort of has an implied time scale (e.g. a human time scale), and your implied time scale is cosmological. Maintaining the rational economic system that we live under requires immense energy inputs, and while it obviously can't be sustained for the next trillion years, it also can't be sustained for the next hundred.