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What year would you visit if you had one round trip back in time? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago* by [B] to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hint: You can prevent https://lifeline4gaza.com/ <- this from happening, or solve the unsolveable historical mysteries that haunt us all.

Premise: the continuum is bullshit and can do whatever idk, viewing only or with alterations, depending on what makes sense to you. It's not a contest to do the most (well okay it is but that could limit our inquiry), just whatever occurs to you first.

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I would go to the year 1800, and bring with me a bunch of books on science and engineering. Basically all the building blocks you need to build wind farms and solar power. I would visit all the universities I can and drop these books in library shelves. Some climate change literature could be nice too.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    During the pandemic we learned that people react well to reasoning and people telling them what to do

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I have a plan B too, but it’s not so gentle.

    The goal is to become the number one energy producer and stomp out all opposition and competition before it has a chance to grow. There are no laws against cartels and monopolies, so you exploit the hell out of it. You file extremely broad patents to prevent fossil fuels and combustion based motors from ever becoming a thing. You play super dirty, no mercy, no remorse. It’s going to be basically like the East-India Company, but with renewable energy.

    You lobby governments to adopt renewable energy and electrical devices you provide. You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects. If the global energy company becomes big enough, you should make your own private army and conquer all the places where large oil deposits exist, and establish massive natural reserve parks in those areas. Lobby the governments to make other similar areas legally protected from all industrial development for the next 1000 years.

    You would become the supervillain billionaire of the 1800s, but you put the whole world on a renewable trajectory.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You influence the public opinion on fossil fuels by spreading information about climate change, pollution and negative health effects

    if you are playing dirty, telling them digging up those evil black liquid out can anger the gods would work too

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    That could work too. Superstitions and religions were in at the time, so I think there’s plenty to exploit.

    You could call coal the Devil’s rock, and spread rumors about it being cursed and haunted. You cal talk about the smoke causing vice, moral decay and sin. Oil could be seen as the blood of the Earth, tears from ancient curses, bad omens etc. Only rebellious sorcerers and heretics would dare to tamper with the natural order of things by burning oil. As the un-godly un-natural smoke poisons the air, it poisons the soul etc. God gave you the sun and wind, so using them is the only righteous choice… You get the idea. The 1800s was a magical period of time.

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