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by TeMPOraL 2596 days ago
Retooling would be a better word. Saul Griffit (via Bret Victor[0]), calls switching to clean energy "more like retooling for World War II, except with everyone playing on the same team". The scale of expenditure and impact on the economy seems appropriate.

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[0] - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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jonasvp 2596 days ago
Not to forget that WWII was a war won by oil. Whoever was able to mobilize the most energy (in the form of oil) could win (a great book about that: Oil, Power and War[0]). Retooling in the face of declining energy availability will be a different matter.

[0]: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/oil-power-and-war/

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TeMPOraL 2596 days ago
We're not going to face declining energy availability for the next few decades. Fighting climate change is in big part a retooling of the energy production, which makes it tricky, but we still have enough dirty sources to burn to replace them with clean ones. Also, at least for now, we're not bombing each other's oil stores too much, so there's that.
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