His entire argument is predicated on the assumption that fossil fuels would need to be used as a primary source…
That’s not true, and it’s disappointing he didn’t realize that.
Other planets may very well not have a large reserve of fossil fuels, and if it wasn’t carbon based, it might not matter anyways
Hell, it’s just as likely that type of climate change would be beneficial as harmful to hypothetical aliens.
He keeps saying it’s not a “ladder” with only one path, but is insistent that every other civilization took the same fossil fuel shortcut as us rather than advancing slowly enough that they’d realize consequences before it was too late.
Just because we fucked our planet up, doesn’t mean every one else did, it doesn’t even mean anyone else had the same opportunity to fuck it up as bad as we did.
We can’t extrapolate from post industrial revolution, because not everyone went thru something as damaging as that. Not even every human culture went through that, the ones who didn’t were just conquered by the ones who didn’t or hadn’t yet.
It’s not an inevitablity.
- I did not read the entire article because it seems somewhat irrelevant. But based on what I did read;
Aren’t they arguing on a more fundamental basis that consuming energy of any kind on Earth results in heat being generated on Earth one way or another?
This is still true for solar panels, wind power, and a number of other things. Obviously they don’t all generate the same amount of waste heat but they do all generate waste heat.
It sounded as though their argument could be more broadly applied to something like solar panels resulting in an increased absorption of solar energy which would affect the biosphere of the planet. Imagine covering an entire desert in solid black colored solar panels that are designed to absorb as much solar radiation as possible as opposed to the sort of reflective sand they have right now (heavy on the sort of reflective).
Buddy…
If you’re replying to a three day old thread, and can’t be bothered to read the whole comment you’re responding too…
Why do you think anyone would keep reading what you think? How do you know it wasn’t already answered?
How big of a hassle was 2 minutes of reading to you that it just had to be skipped?
If reading is that difficult, what are you going to do with an even longer comment elaborating what you couldn’t read in the first place?
Sorry, didn’t read the entire article, I read the whole comment. Bad wording on my part. I edited my response to fix that.
