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by k99x55 802 days ago
No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas.

Fancy futuristic magic tech isn't going to save us.

This sounds like the flying-cars-solves-traffic BS: dark PR funded by the Fossil Fuel industry.

Dark PR talk (regarding the road lobby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA

* climate change is term coined by Big Oil PR to make global warming sounds less scary -
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Two4 801 days ago
To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
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avmich 802 days ago
> No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas.

So what if we can't stop drilling, or can't do that soon enough?

We're trying for quite some time already, we see some results of our attempts, it's probably a good question to ask.

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