[melling]

Almost 45 years after we were told not to burn all that coal, we are still burning all that coal.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI

But 45 years from now we’ll be smart enough to reverse all the damage we did for almost a century.

[wahnfrieden]

Lot of people have let optimism for science and technology get in the way of responsibility for risks that breakthroughs don’t come quickly enough

[is_true]

It's a hard problem, it's similar to what happens when developed countries ask those underdeveloped to not exploit it's natural resources the way they did to get where they are now.