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Originally Posted by sendler
That is fine to say as long as you also realize intrinsically that fossil fuel has allowed human civilization to balloon far beyond being able to survive on current real time solar flows. We cannot just stop without the economy crashing and the world starving and falling apart. And there is no scale of rebuildables that can be implemented to maintain our numbers now without it.
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We have all but eaten our seed corn of affordable liquid fuel to attempt a complete retrofit.
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If viewed with respect to certain conditions and caveats,then the remarkable transformations credited to fossil fuels cannot be disputed.They're as close to real 'magic' as we're likely to see!
It's the spectre of what's fallen through the cracks throughout this transformation that the scientific community is recoiling from in horror that's at issue.
In an unknown length of time,Earth will move out of its 'Goldilocks' zone,rendering a planet which is uninhabitable,in conventional metrics.
We're living proof of surviving a full-blown economic meltdowns.There have been plenty of those.Thanks economists!
Survival may require another economic meltdown.But as AeroStealth has said,we probably won't run out of inches.
We decide.Denali's or Bolts! Teslas or Testarossa's.
There's a soft path and a hard path.The longer we stall on the soft path,the worse the options.
If you WANT to see billions of mortalities,just keep on keeping on! Burn your coal and natural gas.You'll have 'em by default.You'll have your Malthusian apocalypse.
Rugged individualism,laizzez faire,law of the West.........................