[grej]

"Quadruple the cost of fossil fuel via taxes" - It's not what people want to hear, but this type of taxation will have no practical impact on the fossil fuel use of the world. Any fossil fuels produced and not consumed by the west where those tax regimes exist, will be consumed by the developing world. The overall world use of fossil fuels will continue to increase.

Nuclear does have a hope in changing this dynamic. But even then, fossil fuels have powerful advantages that won't be easily overcome any time in the next 10-15 years, at least.

[itsanaccount]

I'm not gonna pretend I expect anything short of war, be it internal or external, to change things.

By the time it actually happens though it will be too late for a lotta people.

But the parent asked what we _should_ do.

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

> I'm not gonna pretend I expect anything short of war,

Ya know, it's never the people calling for a war that end up putting it all on the line to actually fight said war.

[itsanaccount]

Wars of oppression sure. This one may be a bit different. As I like to say, arm your friends. What else are you doing with that tech salary.

[mrtesthah]

A war for the preservation of nature and intelligent life is more than worth fighting. Just show me where to sign up.

[defrost]

Taxation to reflect the true cost of fossil fuels can (rather should) be redirected towards mega scale (ie matching the scale of oil extraction industry) actual atmospheric carbon capture, both industrial plant based (to create fuels used to reduce deep extraction fuels) and organic plant based (as plants are pretty damn good at pulling down C02) for sequestration.

The goal is to reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere by whatever means work.