[acdha]

Finding something ideologically inconvenient doesn’t make it noise. There is simply no level of new carbon emissions which isn’t guaranteed to cause expensive problems around the world. That doesn’t mean we can’t switch everything instantly but that means we shouldn’t be building anything new which has a safe alternative — and in the case of electric power generation or cars, that’s especially clear because burning fossil fuels for that is more expensive so you’re paying extra to pollute more.

[cinntaile]

I don't find it ideologically inconvenient, I just don't think it's a realistic take. There are situations for power generation where fossil fuels are the only viable alternatives hence why I mentioned them. Now if you had infinite resources and infinite money then that's probably not true, but we don't live in a world like that.

[seszett]

> There are situations for power generation where fossil fuels are the only viable alternatives

That doesn't make them safe. Eventually there situations will have to find a way to do without fossil fuels if we want to keep this planet habitable.

[cinntaile]

I don't see how that's relevant, my original post made no safety claims.