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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm always amused that people can believe renewables can be built to replace all fossile energy production before we would be able to build any nuclear power plant. It's a fallacious reasoning in many ways, but I guess if you repeat it enough it becomes truth?

[-] doomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do support the argument that further complexifying essentials before the great decomplexification is a bad idea. However, burning a ton of fossil fuels to build alternative power sources is not a solution unless it is basically free energy - renewable alone is not sufficient justification. We need volitional degrowth. We won't get it, but that's what we need.

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