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Originally Posted by Camelback
Think about what there wouldn't be without simple things like electricity and cheap fossil fuels used to generate that electricity and grow our food.
We would have a global population of about 500 million to 1 billion and extensively less knowledge as a species.
Humans have barely gotten to this point of comfort and excess in a fraction of a blink of an eye in geologic time. (Refer to the UFO thread).
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^Unfortunately, people waste most of their good health and free time watching TV, or more recently, screwing around on their phone keeping tabs on people they barely knew in high school.