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by JumpCrisscross 1149 days ago
> Same was true for combustion engines, they will probably send us extinct.

What? Because we weren't burning fossil fuels before cars?

Besides forgetting about trains, steamships and the coal-powered Industrial Revolution, you're ignoring the billions of lives lifted out of poverty.

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I guess one could argue this was also a pretty stupid thing to do ? I read Tesla’s auto-biography, he even knew back then we were messing up a lot.