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11. This number we now call "economic productivity..."

Mon May 28, 2018, 07:09 PM

May 2018

... is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to what's left of the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.

We should fix that.

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It looks like we topped out at 411.86 ppm this year. [View all] NNadir May 2018 OP

I'll just leave this here ... VMA131Marine May 2018 #1

Like all the denial horseshit about so called... NNadir May 2018 #3

More renewable energy is coming on line than new nuclear VMA131Marine May 2018 #6

If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up. NNadir May 2018 #7

28 exajoules of nuclear energy for the entire 20th century VMA131Marine May 2018 #9

Gotta start somewhere. VMA131Marine May 2018 #5

It's a bad start. hunter May 2018 #10

It does look like quadratic growth overall. 5 year GDP growth is... Lucky Luciano May 2018 #2

This number we now call "economic productivity..." hunter May 2018 #11

Economic productivity is directly tied to fossil fuels The_jackalope May 2018 #12