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"When history looks back on this century," Paul said, "they will see it as an aberration. A bizarre spike on the energy graph when we suddenly realized the Earth had millions of years of the sun's energy stored underground and used it all up in a brief blaze of glory. The worst thing that ever happened to the human race was the invention of the steam engine."
"You're kidding me," I said. "All of modern human advancement and invention, enabling billions of people to survive, that's all nothing? Medicine? Global communication? Modern agriculture?"
"It's a glitch. It's like blowing your whole trust fund in a weekend. When the fund runs out, you've got to live on your income."

All I'm hearing is 'I can't' when I needed that data yesterday. Go bore someone else with your excuses.

"If not, we'll go to plan B."
"Which is?"
"I don't know. I'll make it up if we need it."