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by prottog 1349 days ago
I think the "fuck you, I already live in a part of the world that was developed on the back of cheap energy and it's really too bad that you will never be allowed to develop like I did" humans will kill more humans than the status quo ever will.
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The “fuck you, you developed on the back of cheap energy, and want us to keep living in huts” humans will do plenty to move the needle. There’s 1.5 billion Indians, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis with sub-1.0 tons of CO2 annual footprints who want to live like Texans. (My cousin just moved to Arlington, TX and she loves it. “Look at all this elbow room!”)
I have mixed feelings about Texans ;-) but I'm glad that your cousin is living a better life and expending an order of a magnitude more energy than she presumably used to.
We are talking about the same people.