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And yet, there's still the elephant in the room.
The literal 'Elephant's Foot' from the Chernobyl disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
It's bad enough that disaster even happened, but now the aftermath is now in a war torn country? Fuck, why can't we just all work together and figure a way to recycle the nuclear material that we refined in the first place, instead of Russia trying to blow it up?
Oh that's right, nuclear stuff is super dangerous. Like, potentially worldwide life ending dangerous. ~~Humans~~ Politicians are not responsible enough for any of these energy demands, whether it's coal, oil, nuclear, etc..
Shit, my own phone only uses a few milliwatts of energy a day, but the servers it connects to use megawatts. Has anyone ever considered just turning off the electricity, worldwide, for like a month, just to see what happens?
Just a hypothetical thought there, please don't take me too seriously. But for real, humans existed for over 100,000 years without electricity and they never had any of these extreme devastating problems...
We had entire cilizations collapse entirly mostly due to ecological disasters. Illnesses were wipeing out huge parts of the population in some cases. Wars also used to be much more common.
The technologies we have do make the world a better place. Not alwasys, but on average.