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Doomberg: Energy is Life and We Are Killing It

From the New World

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Is This Justification of Poverty?

This is a kind of post-hoc ideology that is justifying poverty because we're dealing with a bureaucracy that is unable to steer us towards a different destination. There's this catastrophe-driven mindset of sure 100 million people will starve, but we're going to quote-unquote, save the planet. And like what we're seeing in Sri Lanka today, the country is collapsing. It's incredible to see it play out in real time. Like, look, there's going to come a time where our overlords have decided for you or you shut up. But it's coming until something is done about it.

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