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To finally bury this one anti-renewables astroturfed Reddit comment (europe.pub)

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It stems from people having a shit idea of how much space there is in the world, too. Yes, too much of our infrastructure is car centric, but holy fuck buddy there’s a lot of land out there that doesn’t have anything on it right now.

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unused land isn't useless land. Every bit of land, grass, tree, rock currently has a place and destroying/changing it has consequences. We can't just assume that unused (by humans) land is usable (by humans) land, like white settlers have a habit to do

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, you’re just not understanding the scales we’re talking about. That’s ok, most people can’t wrap their heads around it.

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 0 points 3 weeks ago

I think you can't really handle what "human activity" means and how it affects everything, but if you're advocating for preservation of literally human life on the planet, avoiding diseases spread and all, it's something you should get yourself acquainted with