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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It really feels like we could still avert most of the worst effects of climate change if we just got rid of the u.s. military and coordinated a global effort to transition to 100% nuclear, wind and solar power, but we're just not going to

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

The only nuclear transition we're getting is to a nuclear winter posadist-nuke

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

You could run society just fine and be plenty comfortable on 0.2 kWh of power generation per capita, spread between solar, hydro, and biomass/biogas.

But this would never happen under capitalism, which requires an ever-increasing amount of power generation.