3 ms·
It won't be governments that avert climate change, it'll be individuals acting in their own self-interest. This might be violent (everybody kills their neighbo
by nostrademons 7y ago
It won't be governments that avert climate change, it'll be individuals acting in their own self-interest.
This might be violent (everybody kills their neighbors, reducing the population and hence greenhouse emissions), or it might be economic (as fossil fuel prices rise, renewables become increasingly price-competitive, such that some people end up making a lot of money electrifying the world). Personally I'm rooting for the economic solution.
- crispinb 7y ago> Personally I'm rooting for the economic solution. An impossibility because so called 'economic growth' (which is no more than global entropy increase) is coming to an end as degraded ecosystems worldwide fall into collapse. Climate change is only the most salient of literally thousands of distributed causes of this, but the overview is: the physical loans taken out on our global systems over the past two centuries are coming to maturity. It's payback time.