Renewable energy is creating US jobs twice as fast as any other industry

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5. Solar is dependent on fossil fuels too.

Our high energy industrial consumer economy depends on fossil fuels.

An economy powered entirely by solar, wind, and other "renewable" energy sources would look nothing like the economy many of us who post here in E/E now enjoy. Neither would an economy that was entirely nuclear powered.

I'm deeply critical of anyone who believes solar, wind, or nuclear power are drop-in replacements for fossil fuels.

I also believe human work ethics will be the end of us. I don't see job growth and increases in "productivity" as a good thing. Economic productivity as we now define it is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.

The evolutionary advantage of human work ethics is that they are advantageous in war. Now that a single economic cult has conquered the world, human populations will continue to grow, resource extraction will increase, fossil fuel use will increase, and eventually there will be a catastrophic systems failure.

We humans are not the first innovative species on this planet to experience exponential growth followed by collapse, and we won't be the last.