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> There is no one single clever solution to the climate problem. There is. Just stop emitting greenhouse gases.

• hossbeast 7y ago
  Now you have worse problems.
  • noiv 7y ago
    I fail to imagine problems worse than Earth with +4C.
    • AnimalMuppet 7y ago
      A fair amount of greenhouse gas emissions are from growing and transporting food. "Just stop" means that a fair amount of our food production stops. The problem with +4C is a lot of people dying; killing them earlier by starvation is not a solution.
      • noiv 7y ago
        You do realize starvation is already happening because of changing weather pattern?
• koheripbal 7y ago
  We don't even need to STOP entirely. We can just reduce by ~50% of current levels. Greenhouse gases could still be used for numerous applications, as long as we stop using it for power generation, ground transportation, and manufacturing.
• dang 7y ago
  Please don't post unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064741.
  • noiv 7y ago
    I'd like to know in which part of the planet my comment is unsubstantiated.
    • dang 7y ago
      It was a shallow one-liner that repeated a platitude in a dismissive way. That makes it an unsubstantive post and we're trying to avoid those here. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking their spirit more to heart when posting? Your comment broke at least three of them: "Please don't post shallow dismissals [...] A good critical comment teaches us something." "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html