• thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Downvoting for the ‘tip us into ecological disaster’.

    Please anyone correct me if I’m wrong but from what I understand clean energy will slow that disaster down, not tip us into it.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netOPM
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      6 months ago

      Clean energy is able to somewhat solve the problems of fossil fuel. However they do not solve other environmental problems like a massive crisis in soil depletion from industrial agriculture, over fishing, pesticides and many other things destroying biodiversity and so forth. The only way we can solve those is by using earths resources better. Since economic growth and resource consumption are linked, that means we have no chance of solving those problems, if we continue to grow our economy no matter what. That is also true for the climate crisis, but clean energy helps.

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      Seems fine to me. It says that it’s the growth obsessed economy part that’s doing the tipping. The word “still” is being used in its adveb sense to mean that the transition to green energy won’t be enough to stop that tipping on its own.