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Because panic does not bring about solutions. Nobody is disagreeing that there is an issue. Nobody. I believe there are a number of people pointing out the prob
by altitudinous 7y ago
Because panic does not bring about solutions. Nobody is disagreeing that there is an issue. Nobody. I believe there are a number of people pointing out the problem, over and over, civil disobedience etc, but there is nobody pointing out a viable solution. I believe that is why nobody responds to civil disobedience. I think if people came up with a viable solution we would be all over it. Technological change is probably the answer (as it was to the ozone hole). I think electric vehicles eliminating fossil fuel powered vehicles as sure as flat screen TV's eliminated CRT's is an answer. I think a lack of acceptance of nuclear power is an issue, and nuclear power is an efficient viable solution. Solutions have to be socially acceptable and able to deliver mass change - a solution of turning off coal plants is not an answer as it would destroy civilisation, economies and populations in the same way that climate change would - no equally efficient and inexpensive replacement. Activist groups have not realised that Civil disobedience is not an answer, it is just pushing the question over and over. Solutions are what is required!!
- ablation 7y ago> Nobody is disagreeing that there is an issue. Nobody. Actually, I think one of the key issues is you still have powerful, vocal pointing out there is no issue. For example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46351940 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46351940
- altitudinous 7y agoSO WHAT? The USA doesn't rule the world. What is your solution? Convincing everyone that there is a problem is not a solution. We just end up with everyone convinced there is a problem. Wasted energy. What is the solution?
- ablation 7y agoWhat an unnecessarily hostile response. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything - one of the issues is that you have people who not only deny it's happening, but are trying to convince people it's not happening. Regardless of your assertion, the evidence is there that the issue is extremely polarised. I was pointing out that it's not as simple as wanting to believe that everyone is on the same page, here. It's not easy to even get people to recognise the issue, let alone starting from a point where we're all pulling in the same direction. I don't have a solution.
- adrianN 7y agoThe solution is a carbon tax that is tied to the cost of extracting carbon from the atmosphere and storing it for geological time periods. The sooner we start, the gentler we can ramp it up.
- empath75 7y agoWorld wide tax on fossil fuels that starts out painful and increases gradually to unaffordable.
- naasking 7y agoWhich disproportionately impacts the poor who have to commute into unaffordable cities. You see there are no easy solutions, our societies have built-in negative externalities of all kinds that culminated in this problem.
- adrianN 7y agoYou know what also disproportionately impacts the poor? Catastrophic climate change. At least a tax can be structured in a way that poor people are less impacted.
- empath75 7y agoThere will at least at first be a lot of new tax revenue from it to redistribute.
- naasking 7y agoPoor people are often already living paycheck to paycheck. A refund at the end of the year will be pretty late for many of them.