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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by magic_hamster on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:59PM (#36937357)
Carbon emissions biggest offender is the energy industry. How is that the work of the unwealthy masses?
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by civilized on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:03PM (#36937389)
The energy industry powers all of industrial civilization. Everyone, wealthy or not, relies on industrial civilization to survive.
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by jacknobody on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:26PM (#36937541)
That has only been true for a few hundred years at most.

Perhaps we could have avoided this outcome, and perhaps there's still a way to return to a sane life.

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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by 40yearoldman on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:16AM (#37019663)
Life is sane. People are living longer than they ever did in history, most live better than kings of the past. Must of history lived in horrid conditions, so I don't think this outcome is all that bad.

Yet sane life here with flushable toilets, antibiotics, and global communications, is something we should avoid...

None of these can be had without the infrastructure we have built. None of the advances in the human collective knowledge could have happened. We know this because we can look back in history and see how long humans clanked rocks together and yelled at the sky above for rain.

Only a fool would suggest we should have avoided this outcome, all while typing on a keyboard connected to the most advanced thing humans had ever made.

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