@SW-User True, and frankly I can't comment on their accuracy as I don't know enough about the subject.

I would be far more trusting of data is Climate Change were not a multi-million dollar industry.

@Quizzical I hear ya. It is hard to know what to believe. There is nothing that money doesn’t have it’s grubby little paws in. Both For & against.

Err on the side of caution- build a submarine:)

@SW-User Lmao, sounds like a plan 😂

@chrisCA I go back and forth on this. It could be a good thing.

Mostly I think automating most work will equalize a lot of people and push us towards a basic living wage and social programs and make us more like the Federation in Star Trek. Or we might just end up like Wall-E.

These are my "best case" scenarios.

It's more likely the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer and we will become more of a black mirror dystopia.

@Doomflower I suppose it depends on where you live. Some nations take better care of its citizens than others.

@Quizzical Yes it would take and astronomical amount of energy to boil enough for 7 billion people to survive on a daily basis.

https://www.canstarblue.com.au/electricity/boiling-kettle-costs-think/

That should give you an idea of the cost involved and explains some of the issues of boiling water better than I can.

@Quizzical ps this is a kinda ‘let them eat cake’ moment 😜

@SW-User 🤔

@SW-User Energy is no problem really if we switched away from petrochemical, wood burning etc etc and to much cleaner sources.

They can build houses these days that are so energy efficient the householders can sell electric to the power companies.