Re:Mapping how the United States generates its electricity
by DarkTree on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:05AM
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For people in the future, the age of fossil fuels is going to be a small blip in the history of human civilization. To many people, it may even be weird that it was ever thing at all, given that our earth had renewable resources all along. Hopefully, that shift in mindset takes place, where people cannot imagine not considering environmental impact.
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Re:Mapping how the United States generates its electricity
by civilian on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:22PM
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Why would it be weird that it was a thing at all?
Renewables have usually been more expensive than fossil fuels. We're at a point in history where we're transitioning the human race from being 99% in absolute poverty into fractions of that. Yes, fossil fuels are not sustainable, but for the sake of bringing people out of poverty I think the reasons why we used fossil fuels will be obvious to an historian who isn't clouded by their own futuristic first-world bias.