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by trentnix 1943 days ago
It has to. Every prescription I've read almost exclusively focuses on changing behavior. That means telling huge numbers of people - billions really - that their pursuit of wealth and convenience and modernization must be handicapped. In some cases, we're told there are too many people altogether.

That's a recipe for unrest and war on a global scale. A technological solution might avoid all that.

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> Every prescription I've read almost exclusively focuses on changing behavior.

This sounds like a big strawman. I honestly have never met anyone who thinks we can fix climate change exclusively with changing behavior.

If I'd said 'largely', would that have helped?
Policy can help, good stories can do a lot of work too