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> … getting people out of poverty. We have only ever managed to get people out of poverty by increasing their per-capita energy usage. Any once we do, their f
by throwaway210222 5y ago
> … getting people out of poverty.
We have only ever managed to get people out of poverty by increasing their per-capita energy usage.
Any once we do, their families demand to maintain said standard of living that can only be met with enormous amounts of concentrated energy.
We have - and continue - to do this using fossil fuels.
Do you have another, secret, method?
- CodeGlitch 5y ago> using fossil fuels They can skip the fossil fuels and go straight to green energy can they not? This will require advances in technology, and therefore should be our focus.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> go straight to green energy can they not? No they cannot. We cannot even get Switzerland - small, rich, smart, friendly, good infrastructure, top class law, surrounded by mountains and water, etc. etc. to renewables in a decade.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoWell with an attitude like that we won't...
- throwaway210222 5y agoHope is not a strategy.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoOf course not, but it can feed into a strategy.