[andyjohnson0]

Building roads across a wilderness to haul stuff to extract oil to heat the atmosphere to make money seems kind of insane. But the pics were good. I just wish we humans took better care of things.

I wonder if airships would be a better solution in terms of lift capacity?

[muti]

Veritasium posted a video summarising the state of airships ~10 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBgEkbnX2I

[Maxion]

I don't think the average (or even a minority of HN readers) realize how much they'd have to give up if we'd stop.

[pjc50]

Hard stop is practically impossible, but a transition is something people have been talking about for years, and is finally starting to happen as the fraction of new cars sold that are EVs rises.

[DoneWithAllThat]

And that it would degrade our ability to defend ourselves to the point that someone else would come here and take it.

[andyjohnson0]

The difficult question is how much will we have to give up if we don't?

[Maxion]

I think the more salient question is WHO will have to give WHAT up if we don't stop?

I assume most HN readers work in IT with decent salaries, putting us in the 90th+ percentile globally. We'll still be drinking wine in our off-grid A/C'd homes when the rest of the world suffers.

[Infernal]

The more difficult question is who gets to decide.

[pjc50]

Even if no identifiable person gets to decide, the climate may force a whole series of individual decisions. Or a wildfire decides for you.