Andrew Scott Chapman
1 min readAug 27, 2023

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This sounds like pure fantasy to me. It's a pleasant fiction, but a fiction notheless.

The reality is this is a finite system. Things are going to run out. That's not green rhetoric, it's fact. Oil, coal, lithium, copper, Uranium if we go all in on nuclear, hell even sand... The more of us there are, the faster it all goes.

And what have we done to the Amazon, countless other forests, the oceans, lakes, rivers, the soil, and the sky? How many species have we lost already? How many will disappear in the coming decades? Pardon my French, but we've fucked all of it.

What are we going to do when the huge glaciers like Thwaites melts and causes 10 feet of ocean rise? What are we going to do when large parts of the Earth experiences lethal wet bulb temperatures? What are we going to do when crops start failing more and more often?

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Andrew Scott Chapman
Andrew Scott Chapman

Written by Andrew Scott Chapman

Senior Software Engineer, terrible but enthusiastic table tennis player.

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