• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    We’re slowly getting there. Unfortunately our ship is a large one to turn, but if you think about it, we’re quite quick lately. The combustion age seems like it’ll be over in about ql1/20th the time of the Bronze Age. But, yes, aware the Bronze Age didn’t actively destroy our liveable environment.

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      2 days ago

      We can mark human caused excess carbon emissions starting in the bronze age, thanks to polar ice cores. They just were like 0.0000001% of what we are producing today. If we had 8 billion bronze age humans, the world would be completely deforested, but the emissions might be a bit lower.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah I believe recently for the first time more renewables powered the US grid (over a month) than fossil fuels.

      The only thing stopping that progress is the utter destruction of world trade, and well, the US is trying their damndest to do that.