Were people in the late 1990s aware that they were living at the peak of energy production/industrial civilization?
Did they know that it was all going to be downhill from that point?
>>2242595
>mfw a leftist tells me electric energy will just replace shit like coal and oil
what do they think coal is used for?
Well first of all, everything to the right of the line is fictional.
But more importantly, oil extraction is not equivalent to "energy production/industrial civilization." Energy production has continued to increase, in fact.
But to answer your real question, we've known we were close to peak oil for a long time.
>TFW all you remember from the 90s was Sega Genesis, boy meets world, and 56k dial up AOL
born ten years too late desu
>>2242603
>what do they think coal is used for?
It's a form of welfare for uneducated white people. But thankfully it's ending soon, as it is becoming harder to pretend it's economically viable. Nobody is building new coal plants anymore. Even solar is cheaper.
>>2242639
>even when white people are accepting welfare they're still basically working instead of selling drugs to each other and shitting at the police
really makes you think
>>2242653
White people also receive the majority of regular old welfare, but nice try.
>>2242660
>majority of the population
>receives the majority of welfare
such a scandal!
>>2242666
I didn't say it was a scandal, I just said you were wrong.
>>2242639
>working a job in a private industry is welfare
why are leftist so retarded?
>>2242595
Yes.
So did the people of 1912.
>>2242696
A heavily, heavily subsidized private industry, that actively harms the entire country.
>>2242696
>The government should subsidize me because I deserve an income even though my job doesn't actually produce enough value to justify my wage
Barely above being a welfare queen tbqh
>>2242595
>peak energy production
>>2242653
No white people just launder the drug money and consume it at alarming rates, opiates in particular.
>>2243821
Ideally no energy production source should be subsidized.
>>2244184
Ah so you agree all funding for (((green))) energy should be ended
>>2244348
>implying even China isn't moving away from coal making it non viable