Ricardo, it depends on your perspective.  For example, many people need cars to
work.  Also, capitalist society exerts other
strong pressures on people.

Ricardo Duchesne wrote:

> > Capitalism is supposed to have been integrally associated with the rise of
> > modern technology, which is absolutely dependent on fossil fuels.  So, if
> > modern technology depends on fossil fuels -- everyone but George Gilder
> > and the like will agree with that -- that maybe you can say that
> > capitalism depends on fossil fuels.
>
> It is not capitalism but anyone who uses a car who depends on
> fossil fuels.

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Michael Perelman
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