1) You can't spend that much gold without fucking up the economy around you permanently
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2) Your whole life will now be messed up bc there is no job in the world that will increase your net worth as fast as finding the gold did
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I mean we have to admit that renewables suck compared with finding oil. That's common sense in the end
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We're not going to get the windfall of just finding that much stored energy lying around again, the odds are astronomically against it
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And I think overoptimism about renewables may be harmful if it obscures the message that no matter what we have to slow consumption
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This is also a bleak message about "the Apocalypse" - our species might survive a major setback but the oil will still be burnt up
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That's our inheritance, we already spent most of it and if we blow ourselves back to the Stone Age it ain't coming back
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By the time oil slowly built up from fossilized plants again we would be gone and the beetles would be the ones drilling for it
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Depressing thought: If we fuck up this time, the "bridge" to an industrial civilization we got from oil might just be gone
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Our descendants might just be stuck - they might know how we got to our tech level but be unable to fuel the machines to do it
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Chu's Rule: a species only has one chance to get off its planet :'(
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