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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The only way that argument makes sense is if you use a short term time frame. Having a 100 year run with living the good life is great for the people living in that time frame, but then everyone living when the consequences come down are screwed.
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That's how humanity makes decision. Trying to plan 100 years into the future is practically impossible, I doubt anybody 100 years ago, when oil started to replace coal for transport fuel, could imagine how much coal would be burned today to generate electricity and steel.
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Alberta's 4th covid wave is a prime example. They could have kept restrictions in for a few more weeks and avoided it all but needed to be 'open for summer' so hundreds of people died.
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But highly vaccinated European countries that held off opening till later, like Denmark, are seeing a surge in cases again as temperatures cool down. I don't think we'll really know how bad the Alberta decision really was until next spring.