The world consumes *seventeen times* more fossil fuels in a year than we will require to electrify the planet *forever*:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility
The infrastructure of renewables - panels, batteries, transmission lines - requires materials that are often scarce and whose processing involves extremely harmful and polluting processes.
26/
Cory Doctorow
npub1yx…75qvv
2026-05-04 10:43:31 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tz9e
Author Public Key
npub1yxzkmtuyctjw2pffp6e9uvyrkp29hrqra2tm3xp3z9707z06muxsg75qvvSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-05-04 10:43:31 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "8673b647b5f3aea9b66e51117d1dd666d5f2883a97df784f75f59788b37d8aa6",
"pubkey": "21856daf84c2e4e505290eb25e3083b0545b8c03ea97b89831117cff09fadf0d",
"created_at": 1777891411,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"e599aed3397b2e4f9fd27b3d18972af0630994cb8297a227db8b68baaf3de977",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"content-warning",
"Long thread/26"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/116515891569951980",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub"
]
],
"content": "The world consumes *seventeen times* more fossil fuels in a year than we will require to electrify the planet *forever*:\n\nhttps://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility\n\nThe infrastructure of renewables - panels, batteries, transmission lines - requires materials that are often scarce and whose processing involves extremely harmful and polluting processes. \n\n26/",
"sig": "6297dc324521317782b78f923c8da3f47192d0cc791dc49f8d0043aae575cd6065ee4dcaacd53a0343d44aaf9b68d020d1a10a8cde264e37edc333b1046315f0"
}