Ok. Bear with me. We’re starting to get into real absurdity time here. Things were already ridiculous. And it looks like we’re unlocking whole new levels every day! You realize there is a non-zero number of Christians (and maybe even Muslims, and maybe even Jews!) who think this is the beginning of Armageddon! (I swear there is a point to this digression!) You can say people are stupid, but, just like with everything else, it kinda depends on how you look at it. In a sense, it’s actually impressive, in my opinion, because in other senses, we’re not stupid. Like, we were smart enough to figure out how to extract energy from fossil fuels, but not (collectively?) smart enough to figure out (though a few people did figure it out, since, really, at a certain point, it’s only a matter of making a certain, yes, very large number of calculations, which Arrhenius was able to painstakingly perform by hand in the 1800s!) that if we based our whole economy on this for many hundreds of years while only a few brave people dared to seek out an alternative, it would cause, among other things, global environmental catastrophes not previously visited on earth for dozens of millions of years, including, yes, global warming and mass extinctions!
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Mario Marrufo 