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With respect to global warming, I don’t think we’ll get there politically. There are too many people and politicians that either don’t have a scientific worldvi
by torpfactory 8y ago
With respect to global warming, I don’t think we’ll get there politically. There are too many people and politicians that either don’t have a scientific worldview or are on the payroll (so to speak, not literally but via campaign funding) of fossil fuel companies.
We may, however, get there via improved economics and technology happening in renewable energy right now. With an unreasonable amount of luck, we might buy ourselves enough time to make peace with the human condition and find a replacement for global capitalism that does a better job of integrating the reality of our needs and the planet’s.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoPolitically we have subsidies. Economically subsidized competition. It’s all very feasible and can be done rather quickly. We did / are doing it with wind and solar and can do so with negative carbon.