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We have also survived without electricity for a long time, so I'm not sure it's a convincing argument.
by Evgeny 12y ago
We have also survived without electricity for a long time, so I'm not sure it's a convincing argument.
- eevilspock 12y agoYes, but one has lots of environmental and societal costs, while the other doesn't. If electricity were bad overall for society, his argument would apply to it too.
- Evgeny 12y agoIsn't most of electricity these days obtained by burning coal? I remember figures around couple hundred thousand yearly just from that. Here is one of the sources https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/pollution-deaths-from-fossil-fuel-based-power-plants https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/...