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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
1. Damn those inconvenient facts ...
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 03:59 AM
Aug 2014

> "But worldwide, we've built more coal-burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade"

> "Far from solving the climate change problem, we're investing heavily in technologies that make the problem worse"

> how quickly these "committed" emissions are growing -- by about 4 percent per year -- as more fossil fuel-burning power plants are built.


Come on you technocopians, you Jevons deniers, you anti-Malthus preachers.

Come and tell us how rosy the fucking future is (in your dreams).

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