Good point. It’ll mean dragging a series of global warming hoaxters out into the desert, at night, then filling in the hole.
out into the desert,
imho one of the by products of cheaper energy will be the ability to make desalinated seawater at a cost cheap enough—including the cost of piping freshwater inland 1000 miles— to make desert farming anywhere in the world profitable.
basically the habitable size of earth will double.
that will bury the ideas of the malthusian population bomb people and give people on earth the runway needed to develop warp drive or faster than light travel speeds needed to spread people out into the galaxy.
that’s the full tree. We’ll see the seed next year.