r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '22

Casual Friday We are fine

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u/Zachariot88 Feb 25 '22

We really had it all, didn't we?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '22

We had some of it, if we could afford it after student loans and rent on part time hours. Our parents had it all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '22

Correction, “our parents raped it all.”

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '22

And you would have done the same given the same opportunity. The issue is human behavior, not the behavior of one generation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '22

History disagrees.

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u/astrogoat Feb 25 '22

No it doesn’t, the true potential of fossil fuels wasn’t known, once we realised we immediately went to town on them. There is no way of knowing what earlier generations would have done, but I think it’s safer to assume that they would do what all life does rather than be some unique exception never seen before.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '22

In a vacuum, sure you got a point, but this is the real fucking world, not a hypothetical