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I don't think you understand the situation.
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This isn't something that's going to be solved by turning off the lights when you leave a room and buying a Prius. The numbers are too big.

People have forgotten the fragile foundations of a high-tech Western civilization, and assume that electricity comes from a wall, and clean water from a faucet. Always has, always will.

You can see some of the shakiness when water gets a bit low in the Southeast, or the power goes off for a while during a hot day. We had some gas lines in the 70s, and thought we knew what suffering was like. I was in Kennedy airport during the last New York blackout.

We're not talking moving into a studio apartment if this hits the fan and we just assume we can "conserve" our way out of it. We're talking moving into a tent.

Doesn't mean conservation is useless. But it's far from enough.

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