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Environment & Energy

caraher

(6,362 posts)

8. Could be

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 12:30 PM

Oct 2014

Effectively limitless energy, employed using the collective "wisdom" of the marketplace, is effectively limitless potential destructive power. It could get our current civilization out of the short-term climate change mess, but giving full rein to our appetite for energy is a longer-term recipe for disaster.

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