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> … getting people out of poverty.

We have only ever managed to get people out of poverty by increasing their per-capita energy usage.

Any once we do, their families demand to maintain said standard of living that can only be met with enormous amounts of concentrated energy.

We have - and continue - to do this using fossil fuels.

Do you have another, secret, method?

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> using fossil fuels

They can skip the fossil fuels and go straight to green energy can they not? This will require advances in technology, and therefore should be our focus.

> go straight to green energy can they not?

No they cannot.

We cannot even get Switzerland - small, rich, smart, friendly, good infrastructure, top class law, surrounded by mountains and water, etc. etc. to renewables in a decade.

Well with an attitude like that we won't...

Hope is not a strategy.

Of course not, but it can feed into a strategy.

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