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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by Mirioron on Saturday May 25, 2019 @09:07PM (#20012513)
Pretty much. Life for the average person before the industrial revolution was terrible. It only became decent after the industrial revolution and even that took time. It was built on fossil fuels and consumption.

The only way you can reduce consumption is by increasing efficiency. Limiting people in the long term is not going to work unless you create an authoritarian government.

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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by mrob on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:07AM (#20013719)
>The only way you can reduce consumption is by increasing efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by Mirioron on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:31PM (#20016936)
My point was that increases in efficiency is the only thing people will accept. Everything else will cause people to not accept it, berceuse their quality of life suffers as a result.
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