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I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

"Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1jOqyjcO4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUA1kFSJnYQ

I was going to say more, but basically, watch those videos (or read their references).

Good news sells bad, solar energy is being deployed really quickly and accelerating exponentially, solar has a higher return on investment than gas, coal or oil (about 8x as much in developed markets, according to the IEA), nowadays, green energy is the better one for the economy, and the billionaires just want money, so if it is the green energy that has higher returns, they will invest in that.

Green energy has had 2x as much investment as fossil fuels, and about 80% of that investment is private.


In september 2024 the UK shut down its last coal powerplant.

And I forgot the most important! There have been days where energy has a NEGATIVE COST in some places in the world because of renewables, doesn't that sound like a financial incentive to use renewables?


you could go on for days, there is a lot being done, we just don't know about most of it.