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 and the increase there is more than the hardware they made there with that energy that got shipped here will ever compensate for... if you even actually believed this carbon dioxide bullshit at all, making stuff more efficient is the only path to better, and this is also obstructed by a law of economics that says increased efficiency leads to net increase of consumption

the simple fact is, the only way to reduce carbon dioxide emission is to kill people 
 btw the law i refer to is Jevon's Paradox - that as efficiency (mainly cost) increases, the net consumption also increases