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Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions
- monkeydreams 7y agoI read this article as "Because there are challenges with proposed solutions, because none of the solutions themselves will solve climate change, best not to work on it at all". That's like a general at the start of WWII looking at the stockpile of armaments and saying "Best not fight the Nazis. There's probably more of them than we have bombs in this pile." Yes, the article nods to innovation at the end, but pooh-poohs the idea that we need to change anything to get there. The best fuel for innovation in energy generation is to clear the marketplace of the incumbent fossil fuel behomeths. Tax them, pressure them, restrict their growth - the green energy innovators will quickly grow to fill the gaps. This can be done anywhere, everywhere.
- hodgesrm 7y ago> Solving climate change, in fact, requires getting China, India and all the other developing countries on board to cut emissions. But of course, their goal is to lift their populations out of poverty with cheap and reliable energy. How do we square that? This is the money point in the article. It's difficult to see how we can successfully combat climate change if it means rolling back advances in eradication of poverty. [0] We need technical solutions that work without requiring everyone to be a saint. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty