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We have to educate people about resource depletion somehow. There is too much greenwashing in the media giving everyone a false hope that solar and wind will seamlessly replace everything we are using now so that we can just keep on consuming with business as usual. But solar and wind are not even keeping up with growth. 2005 to 2015 there has been a 4X greater increase in world energy consumption from coal (but tipping down for 2 years), oil, and gas than from solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and biofuel. Even with the huge build out of the last decade, solar and wind currently provide less than 2% of world primary energy.
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These soccer moms must be helped to understand that young children today will live through the biggest event in the history of humans when the cost of oil goes steadily 5X and beyond in 30 years. And Phosphorus for fertilizer in 30 years. And then natural gas in 70 years. This will be like a 5X pay raise for our virtual workers and the price of all of the products and services that we need to maintain civilization in megacities. The growth/ debt based economy will cease to function. Degrowth is inevitable.
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