| True that. > there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint. This is at its core not a truth, but really an unsound belief system that could have been phrased the same about water quality, acid rain, leaded gasoline or the ozone hole. Yet these have all been tackled by humanity as a whole already, because we saw a pretty bad impact on our livelyhood quickly. No doubt, CO2 is really the greatest challenge of all times, compared to nearly any global problem before. But it‘s far from insurmountable, and definitely not directly coupled to growth. All it would take is a (literal) moonshot effort: Taking the same funds as the Apollo Program (in 2022 adjusted dollars) would be enough for a full transition. Before this decade is over. Not because it‘s easy, but because it is hard. Unfortunately, the US seems to have run out of massively visionary presidents since 1968. |