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The jury is still out for me regarding climate change, but I am totally supportive of weaning off fossil fuels ASAP even for the sole reason of cleaner air.
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It's not just a matter of fossil fuels, climate change and such. The big problem we have is that the society all around the world is currently structured based on a God called "growth". Everything must grow, economics, productivity, people, resources consumption...to keep this all running. And there is no teorical end to growth, it just should go on and on ad infinitum. Only that it can't. We live in a finite world, with finite resources (Don't start the crap about malthusians and neo-malthusians, just use your brain) and even if they were infinite, the space we humans occupy isn't. I remember well an image from Star Wars that did really catch my eye: Do you remember the capital city of the Empire? It was a WHOLE planet. A whole planet that has been completely used to the latest inch for buildings. Even if we could manage technically to do that and find resources to keep that running, when the whole planet is used then it's done.
Only there are many people out there who refuse to understand it and prefer to let their grandsons deal with that. No longer, sadly. This S**T is going to explode in OUR faces, not the ones of our grandsons.
