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Our kids will also benefit from the advances provided by fossil fuels. Such is life.


No, previous generations profited from easy access to energy, and let all that profit concentrate in the hands of the few, meaning that average people born today have a measurably crummier chance at a good life than previous generations.


Most of these advances rely on (actual and quasi-) resources we're doing our best to exhaust before some future generation gets to have a share.

"Peak oil" and CO2 are just the tip of the iceberg.

Some future generation is going to dig up the garbage we buried and harvest it for resources. To a degree we're already doing this ourselves looking for stuff like palladium and rhodium.




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