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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 119 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Burning down your house doesn't poison people thousands of years later, so it's not a perfect analogy.

Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We’ve upgraded from burning our houses down to burning our atmosphere down which will absolutely poison humans for centuries to come. And since we now burn larger fires with black rocks, those release far more magic rock dust that poisons people than the magic rock water heaters do. Not to mention that fire has both killed more of us cave dwellers than magic rocks ever have (including the flying weaponry runes made from them) and have caused more ecological disasters, so fire is much worse.

Then we talk magic mirrors, they have evil rocks in them that get in our rivers and we don’t contain well. That aside, we show tradition to our ancestors by making much of them with slavery.

And the magic fans? The design is very human. They’d be a gift from the gods if only the spirit of the wind were always with us.

Summary: Magic rock still good, black rocks and black water make bad fire and hairless monkey make sick more.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then we talk magic mirrors, they have evil rocks in them that get in our rivers and we don’t contain well. That aside, we show tradition to our ancestors by making much of them with slavery.

Sure, because mining uranium is total helaty and no problem at all.

https://genesenvironment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41021-015-0019-3

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

One must be very careful when digging for magic hot rocks or else you expose the evil spirit vapors. Our ancestors knew that where there is magic, some evil lurks. As they did then, we do now when we accept a better evil in return for the magic we believe may do more good than before.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I love the wording in here

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is exactly, factually right, and eloquently put using the same meme terminology people here understand.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

Yet we decided to release way more poison and even way more radiation by mining and burning fossil fuels. We just poison larger areas than any nuclear disasters. And with fossil fuels people actually get cancer, and with toxic byproducts, mutations and birth defects.

People in polluted areas die sooner. Except around nuclear disasters sights - the air gets cleaner once all the people are thrown out.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

We've had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Eccentricity generators were invented before mass oil or coal use (1830s by Faraday).

We've had windmills, hydro, and even animal/human powered devices that could result in turning cranks for the generator to produce electricity - all for centuries at even that point. I would have to look up about when we first used solar to boil water, but I'm guessing there about.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Biomass and windmills perhaps

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

You say thousands of years, but it hasn't been even 70 years since Chernobyl and the surrounding area is a thriving forest with tons of animals, unbothered by humans.