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This is such a silly canard, outside of the eco-primitivists nobody serious is advocating for wholesale lifestyle deflation.

• leereeves 8y ago
  The laughably impotent response to climate change is another issue altogether. Al Gore was telling us that burning fossil fuels was going to destroy the world. The only appropriate response, if that were true, would be immediate "wholesale lifestyle deflation".
  • akhilcacharya 8y ago
    > The only appropriate response, if that were true, That is an absurdly narrow viewpoint for a website dedicated to news about technological advances. I'm honestly astonished.
    • leereeves 8y ago
      Your attitude is inappropriate on a website dedicated to rational discussion. Also, you must be unaware of what Al Gore was saying. "An Inconvenient Truth" predicted horrible things would happen by 2015. That was a very common prediction in the 90s, actually. We're past that now and technological advance is nowhere near eliminating or even reducing climate change. It was obvious even in the 90s that zero-carbon technology wouldn't be ready for decades. The only solution to the doomsday prediction Al Gore was selling 20 years ago was immediate drastic action (which even the Democrats never actually had the will to call for).