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I love the absolute BS of the world in 2022.

The whole world is supposed to be off fossil fuels by now, and here we are hoping and praying Germany and the rest of the EU gets enough fossil fuels to burn this winter.

If humanity was to look at itself in the mirror, it would see an image stupid freaking hypocrite clown.

Solar, Nuclear, Wind, get after it, it's so late now it almost feels like a waste of time...

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Part of the reason Germany is still stuck on fossil fuels was the ultimatums of the environmentalists that killed their nuclear power. IMO if they really care about the environment they need to chill out so people can work out how to transition. Hard rules like this will first result in desperation which causes people to make sub-optimal choices like you're seeing now and eventually economic collapse which will absolutely destroy the environment (think of all the messes the USSR made when it fell apart.) Whatever regime replaces the one that causes this probably will care a lot less about the environment too.

Do we really need to keep blaming hippies?

I've read from a few different places now that people who are part of Nordstream were powerful in German politics and had an incentive to push Gas over nuclear.

I'm sure there are multiple factors at play.

I'm blaming blindly siding with environmentalists (especially corporate funded ones) without reasoning through the consequences. If you want to call those hippies than yeah I'm blaming the hippies, this is a direct consequence of their actions no matter what you call them. The exact same thing is going to keep happening if they don't change their behavior.

We invested more in oil and gas than in renewables so I think you should blame oil and gas more than environmentalists

the Great Filter is approaching

And all this crap from the madness of a few people plus broken systems.

I used to think the great filter thesis stems from the natural hostility of the universe, but I'm now convinced it stems from the danger of monkey brain.

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