galt | 🦡 | on Nostr: Those advocating the end of fossil fuels and nuclear energy might want to read up on ...
Those advocating the end of fossil fuels and nuclear energy might want to read up on humanity’s previous regressions into statist society:
"The Dark Ages were a massive experiment in the back-to-the-land hippy lifestyle (without the trust fund): you ground your own corn, sheared your own sheep, cured your own leather and cut your own wood. Any pathetic surplus you generated was confiscated to support a monk, or maybe you could occasionally sell something to buy a metal tool off a part-time blacksmith. Otherwise, subsistence replaced specialisation." (Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist)
"The Dark Ages were a massive experiment in the back-to-the-land hippy lifestyle (without the trust fund): you ground your own corn, sheared your own sheep, cured your own leather and cut your own wood. Any pathetic surplus you generated was confiscated to support a monk, or maybe you could occasionally sell something to buy a metal tool off a part-time blacksmith. Otherwise, subsistence replaced specialisation." (Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist)