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Originally Posted by kingsway
In my lifetime, life expectancy has increased by 30%, 30% fewer children die young, and people are 3 times more affluent than they were in the 1950's.
Without fossil fuels none of this could have happened...
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This is false. First, most of the increase in life expectancy is due to things like vaccination and basic public health measures, which don't depend on fossil fuels at all.
Second, how are you measuring affluence? Even in the USA, one of the most affluent (by the circular definitions of affluence used by the cheerleaders of urbanization) societies, most people are condemned to live in urban or suburban areas, with little if any access to natural outdoor environments. This makes them pretty darned poor by my standard, and adversely affects their mental & physical health.