I saw this lede today which translates to "energy was cheap for too long":
It immediately reminded me of this quote:
Paul Ehrlich once wrote that giving cheap, abundant energy to humanity would be like "giving an idiot child a machine gun".
Source - https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1355108551904124928?s=20&t=ofsNfU8DRNZivu7C101PuA
In other words, you and I are "idiot children" because we'd like affordable energy to make our lives better.
In reality, most of us are not responsible for the availability of cheap energy. It originally came from the efforts of scientists (like Paul Ehrlich?), engineers, and capitalists. It was they who erected the systems which gave us cheap energy, and garnered the accolades and "earned" the profits from doing so.
But somehow we plebes are now responsible for the outcome - the alleged ravishes of "climate change". So we must eat bugs, de-electify our homes, and regress nearly back to the Stone Age.
All this is NOT our fault, other than to say it exists in part because we're alive and consuming resources and producing waste at a rate too high for the planet to sustain.
Isn't it time we coerce TPTB to stop lying to us and tell the world exactly what they intend to do to us? I'll bet that if we ever do, none of you will ever like any of them again.
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