Tom Ellis
Jan 27, 2022

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Your analysis of the systemic pathologies of corporate groupthink in a market economy is sound, but your generic solution, digitalization, overlooks several key facts. First, you cannot digitize energy, yet net energy is the real-world foundation of all economies, including all the hard infrastructures that make digitalization possible (i.e. the electric grid, mining, manufacturing, etc.) And what is the only reliable source of abundant net energy? Fossil fuels—which are destroying the planet.

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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