‘It’s too powerful a technology’
  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.org
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    2 years ago

    If you were right about markets only using energy when it made sense, we wouldn’t have this problem:

    A graph showing runaway energy use, rapidly increasing since the 19th century, mostly fossils

      • Sandra@idiomdrottning.org
        21·
        2 years ago

        Yes, the fossil economy has enabled society as a whole to create temporary wealth; the past has borrowed from the present. It’s going to be a rough comedown.

        We haven’t been, and still aren’t, commensurately accounting for our environmental externalities.