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[โ€“] lloram239@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World population and our standard of living have improved drastically over those years too, we aren't burning that additional energy for nothing.

[โ€“] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, the fossil economy has enabled society as a whole to create temporary wealth; the past has borrowed from the present. It's going to be a rough comedown.

We haven't been, and still aren't, commensurately accounting for our environmental externalities.