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by pfdietz 1465 days ago
What specific waste is causing your trepidation? Solar and wind have most of their impact from mundane things like glass, aluminum, and steel. But enormous amounts of these are produced for the rest of the economy (annual world production of steel is nearly 2 gigatonnes). None of them present an insuperable obstacle to a global economy that could function indefinitely.