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Human energy consumption isn’t anywhere close to what the sun supplies. We just don’t capture much of it.

Life is a dissipative system too. It consumes energy and generates entropy. This can’t go on forever, but I wouldn’t take that as an argument against life.



But life had up to now evolved to function at a sustainable level.

It can't go on forever indeed there's a thing called the heat death of the universe, but it is sufficiently far in the future that I don't care about it.

The shit that happens now means that my kids won't be able to have children in good conscience (I already feel sorry for them for the mess I put them in).




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