ParlimentOfDoom

Still not represented by GDP

Hydraulics already work off electricity. We already have electric cargo ships. Electric planes and semi trucks already exist. The percentage of machines that absolutely require fossil fuels at this point is shrinking rapidly.

Using an outdated metric continues to be dumb, regardless of your own limited awareness of the alternatives.

That number is not actually representative of how much food they produce, though.

As with all rules of thumb, they don’t tell the whole story. Using fossil fuel usage as the sole stand in for energy usage, in an age when fossil fuel usage is being replaced by a different source… Is dumb.

I’ve never seen this iconic image before