Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss

Re:Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss by raxxorrax on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:51AM (#20768719)

Instead of fascism you could opt for any ideology that leads to conflict and war that has a gigantic death toll. Fascism isn't really known for sudden deindustrialization and everyone becoming flower hippies though.

But at that point I would opt for letting climate change hit. In the absence of catastrophic events we will need more energy today than we needed yesterday. So either we find a solution to increasing needs or problems will arise.

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Re:Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss by Reason077 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:08AM (#20768916)

”In the absence of catastrophic events we will need more energy today than we needed yesterday.”

In developed economies, this hasn’t been true in recent years.

Energy use (electricity, gas, coal, etc) peaked during the 2000s and has been mainly in decline since, despite economic and population growth.

Through improved technology, we have been able to extract more economic value from less energy. Hopefully this trend will continue.

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