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Zane42v2 t1_ja6j06o wrote

I think you think you’re making a case to stop using fossil fuels, but in reality you’re making a case to continue using fossil fuels.

You’ve just proven a farmer could never match the work of his tractor by hiring extra farm hands or using animals.

The same for moving goods, conveying people, etc.

The solution to problems isn’t to radically eliminate whole sectors of products or expect people to radically change how they operate, it’s to displace a shitty tech with a superior and greener one.

100 something years ago the impending doom crisis was we didn’t have anywhere to put all the horse shit, and if people kept buying horses at the rate they were, we were a decade away from every populated city being 6 feet deep in horse shit. Attempts to make people walk and stop using buggy’s didn’t go anywhere. The automobile was invented and the problem evaporated.

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Sea-Election-9168 t1_ja7fa7n wrote

And the enormous amount of land that was dedicated to producing hay….

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Legitimate_Proof OP t1_ja7k104 wrote

Yes this is it. The shit was a visible indication of the problem. Cars didn't solve the problem, they hid it, moved it elsewhere, out of site. Which means we are less likely to solve it.

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