• lloram239@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    World population and our standard of living have improved drastically over those years too, we aren’t burning that additional energy for nothing.

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      1 year 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.