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Renewables will inevitably become cheaper than fossil fuels, as the resource dwindles. The problem is how to make energy abundant enough to satisfy our current needs and those of the rest of the world, who expects to reach our standards of living?
(A: it's not possible, nuclear can help, but only for a while, perhaps enough time for the demographic transition to complete)
@thbb @silence7 most humans are blindly consumption-obsessed… how do you create a massive paradigm shift before it’s too late?
Hmm.. 'demographic transition'?