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Boomer

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8. There's a grim outcome baked into that scenario
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 06:37 AM
Oct 2019

We are locked into fossil fuels and despite the catastrophic consequences we won't give them up because no other fuel source can sustain the current financial systems, infrastructure and populations of industrial nations. Which means that when nations collapse (when, not if), millions of people will die. There is no way to sustain this density of population with other technologies, not yet (if ever) and certainly not within the next 30-40 years.

If we had 200 years to prepare.... we wouldn't feel any sense of urgency and we'd still put it off until it was too late.

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