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Environment & Energy

Think. Again.

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1. Now that we have...

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Mon Aug 28, 2023, 05:59 AM

Aug 2023

...multiple, less expensive ways of supplying energy, there are no more excuses.

If we don't transition to a non-fossil fuel energy economy within the next 20 years, we simply don't deserve energy, and we would deserve the suffering, death, and catastrophic loss that we will be entirely bringing upon ourselves.

And by 'WE', I mean humanity as a whole.

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