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ljorgecluni t1_ixl2ru9 wrote

Is manufacturing giant objects and transporting them faraway to stand them up so that they can generate electricity (and sometimes kill birds) good for the environment?

Is artificial lighting at night good for the human Circadian rhythm or for birds migration or hunting patterns, or for insects night-flight cycles?

Is powering gadgets and global communications and transports good for screen addiction and FOMO and social media nonsense and drug/human trafficking and spreading a local virus in short time to become a worldwide pandemic?

In an alternate universe, the Nazi war machine was zero-emissions, producing bombs with wind energy and fueling attack aircraft with ethanol and tanks with biodiesel! Was this good for the environment?

"The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."

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Liquid_Cascabel t1_ixlkap8 wrote

Realistically you have to compare it to what would have been used instead (mostly fossil fuels depending on the location) rather than nothing though.

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ljorgecluni t1_ixmept5 wrote

That's certainly a prevailing sentiment, but not my own, as I don't regard electrical generation as inevitable (or beneficial).

Presumably all my downvoters don't like all the destructive consequences I already mentioned, they simply don't want to prevent those things if it means forsaking electricity and modern gadgets.

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