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Aside from the enormous risks.. We see that people are not even willing to limit their own emissions in the long term for their own benefit (and I am not talking about the poor, I am talking about the rich - 90% emissions is caused by top 10% wealthy of all people). How do you imagine then, people actually investing energy to cool the planet on other people's behalf? The truth is, we always had technological solutions, problem is where you draw the line on a finite planet to avoid overshoot. It's really like that joke, in a flood, a religious man rejects a neighbor's boat, because he believes the god will save him. Then he rejects a rescue helicopter, again, the god will sure save him. Eventually, he dies, comes to heaven and asks god, why didn't he save him? Well, the god says, I sent the boat and the helicopter.. That's what we do with technology. We have technological solutions (to reduce emissions), we just reject them, because they are below us. Geoengineering is just another prayer. |
All of these campaigns aimed at the everyman will do almost nothing to avert climate change. To actually impact it, companies and the ultra wealthy need to be the targets. If every US citizen making under $500,000/year drove an EV, kept their power off most of the day, and ate only vegetables there would not be a perceivable impact on the climate. Yet, we are sold this nonsense by the media who is ostensibly controlled by the very people doing the most damage.
I find it completely insane the idea that the farmer with his diesel truck, or 100,000 farmers with their diesel trucks, are the cause of the problem. The numbers say otherwise. It is not "our" problem, it is their problem. The ultra wealthy and their companies.