Low Information Voter on Nostr: 100%. For anyone who hasn't read it - ...
100%.
For anyone who hasn't read it - https://annas-archive.org/md5/3eacf365f89c153e748eaa0e5cb909fe
Vaclav Smil's introduction to this problem.
Concrete, steel, fertiliser and plastic are the "Four Pillars" of living standards, and all of them require prodigious amounts of energy that can't be wished into existence (although production can be, and is being, outsourced to Russia / China / India).
For anyone who hasn't read it - https://annas-archive.org/md5/3eacf365f89c153e748eaa0e5cb909fe
Vaclav Smil's introduction to this problem.
Concrete, steel, fertiliser and plastic are the "Four Pillars" of living standards, and all of them require prodigious amounts of energy that can't be wished into existence (although production can be, and is being, outsourced to Russia / China / India).