• nivenkos@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    This is the new luddite movement.

    It really is. Degrowth is destitution and death - just look at Germany.

    We need to decouple electricity production from environmental damage - build renewable power and nuclear power station en masse and invest heavily in nuclear fusion.

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      7 months ago

      Degrowth is a hilarious word to use here because degrowth is literally necessary for us to not run the natural resources of our planet dry. Infinite growth in a finite planet is just logically impossible.

    • Richard@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The first part is at best controversial. The middle part is actually reasonable. And the last part is just ridiculously random and out-of-touch.

    • ReveredOxygen
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      7 months ago

      Even with infinite free electricity, it still takes tons of water to cool all the gpus