Comment by nancyminusone
14 hours ago
Don't kid yourself - we closed this one with "Won't Fix" a while ago.
"But what about <technology/option>?"
No. Full stop. We're not going to do it, and we're not even going to apologize for it either.
All we can do now is prepare, not that I've seen a lot on this front either.
Worse, even if we’re going to do it, the next idiot in power is going to roll it back and declare to big fanfare and applause that coal is back.
You can’t change the world with plans that last no longer than a presidential term.
Thankfully most of the world ignores America and does their own thing.
There are plenty of people who find it convenient to listen to the current administration, and these people vote. I just hope they remain in a minority in my country. It's always a close run race though...
And a 'more conservative than conservative' party is getting increased media attention here at the moment, which could do serious damage.
the chinese can
Don’t give up!
I have this gut feeling the world had finally got to the point it decided to fix this pesky warming issue among other things, with a nice and cozy nuclear winter.
(/s, obviously)
"But what about <technology/option>?"
That blank will not be filled in with today's technologies, but with technologies we cannot conceive of today and with an energy abundance that we can hardly imagine.
Even in this apparently dire predicament, optimism is warranted.
We'll fix it if it become cost effective. It might, but probably won't because if the scale.
we're going to chose the most convenient path. if climate disaster becomes inconvenient, we'll attempt to do something about it.
it will be a disaster.
In the immortal words of Zapp Brannigan:
https://youtu.be/DH_gPGl5FF4
Nothing can be done about it. If you leave it up to the market it will spiral away forever since the cost of dealing with the problem always increases both due to the size of the problem growing and the cost to insure solutions compounding.
The "obstructionist" greens understand that the system is flawed and needs a structural change. We don't live in capitalist fairyland, there are baseline energy costs that can't be inflated away and our ability to work on the problem degrades after every disaster.
Just need a map for all the bunkers. It's gonna be the future version of open-world video games.