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by rdm_blackhole
1804 days ago
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply. A political will is definitely lacking. One thing we cannot say, when the last forest has been cut down or was burned down during the soon to be longer summer months, when the food chains start collapsing due to the death of trillions of insects, is that we did not know. We knew as far back as the 80s that this was going to happen but too often the human species likes to bury its head in the sand until its too late. There is no reason to think that this will change anytime soon. We, in tech like to think about technological solutions to a problem. In this case the tech is here. Its affordable, but we are not embracing it as we should. Instead of committing to net zero in 2050, we should do the transition in less than a decade and then start capturing CO2 from the atmosphere after that. Yet here we are debating if we should or not start trading carbon credits between ourselves, as if there is nothing better to do. |
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Even when it makes financial sense people may be attached to the old way of doing things. They may drive an ICE car because they want to complete their 500 mile trip with one tank even though charging on the way only delays the trip by 30 minutes, something which is possible today.
There are inferior ways of achieving a goal that don't harm the planet. They often require a small sacrifice but they are possible today. When someone insists on an ICE because of a difference in range, they insist that engineers solve the impossible e.g. carbon capture [0] even though a possible solution exists.
That is the real problem. We collectively decide to create a problem that is impossible to solve and then we point at the engineers. They are already solving problems, you know, the solvable ones.
[0] By that I mean enough carbon capture to undo all the pollution that we didn't even try to prevent.