• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      fingers crossed

      Idk if they’re leapfrogging it so much as showing up late to a dry riverbed. There simply isn’t enough petroleum left to do in India / the Pacific Rim or Africa in the 2020s what China, Europe, and the US went through in the 1980s. But I guess the US and Europe are helping out by retarding their technological progress long enough for these other countries to catch up and move ahead.