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Re:The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever by czr80 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @02:52PM (#8413062)
> It's objectively true that increasing the cost of energy amounts to something like a regressive tax.

No, this is not (automatically) true, it matters how the increase is implemented. See, for example: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-...

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Re:The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever by api on Sunday October 05, 2014 @03:55PM (#8413261)
I'm skeptical given the direct physical link between energy and wealth.

But it's also true that this link decouples at a certain level of energy consumption. Thankfully so... But it hasn't been shown that this minimum level can be achieved economically and safely at scale without fossil fuels.

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