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... and vastly improving the lives of 7.5 billion people.
Doesn't make sense to focus on the negative without considering the positive.
I couldn't care less about birds unless they are sitting on my dinner plate.
Petroleum alternatives have to be proven to mitigate the downside of fossil fuel burning to justify their expense and complexity. In other words, all good and bad things taken into consideration with renewables has to outweigh all the good and bad things taken into consideration with burning fossil fuels.
We've run circles around this subject in the GW thread. The single greatest event for the well-being of humanity was and is currently the use of fossil fuels. Surely alternatives will be hugely beneficial to humanity in the future, but looking at fossil fuels as a great evil is absurd.
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