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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Do you think it was advantageous for the British economy to embrace the Steam Engine, or would they have been better off sticking with the horse and buggy?
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The extreme environmentalists would have picked the horse and cheap human labor, much in the way they advocate for closing nuclear plants and hydro today, or think poor villages in Africa and other developing nations should be happy with the little amount of energy produce by a small number of solar panels, rather than centralized electricity generation.