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Apocalypse or extinction?

Your medical doctor informs you: "You need to stop all industrial activities immediately, or you'll be dead in twenty years. And so will your five-year-old child. You might die anyway -- after all, nobody gets out alive -- but your death is guaranteed if you do not stop relying on fossil fuels for travel, heating and cooling, drinking water out the tap, and buying food from the grocery store." Naturally, you go straight from the clinic to the nearest store. You need liquor, and time to ponder whether the trade-off is worth it.

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