It’s a mind blowing figure. The raw tonnage of something innocuous like burlap to make into sandbags between 1942-1945 breaks my brain. Sometimes when I want to feel a glimmer of hope I look at that kind of production and say “yeah, we can totally meet the challenges of climate change, humans move literal mountains when we work together.”

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

The bad news is that this level of industrial production was entirely possible because a bunch of factories had been dormant but not demolished for at most a decade due to the depression. The current level of production that would theoretically be possible would be a mere fraction of what was done in 1942-1945.