I noticed this about 25 yrs ago when people started talking about this stuff in earnest and ubiquitously. Noone anywhere for 100,000 years, in the “wood age” noticed the worldwide, world changing effects of burning wood. Then millienia later nobody was too concerned about burning coal and oil. Then decades later we started having to deal with smog and inversions. Then decades after that we started to infer some potential for climate change and a possible longer term disaster. Why would anybody think solar power, wind power and the like would be like some immaculate conception with no potential future, longer term downside, or just simple less-than-hoped for efficacy or unintended consequences? But the science is settled.
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