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My biggest source of hope for the climate crisis is that we got into our current state by expending enormous amounts of human labour. Those mines didn't dig the
by henrikschroder 7y ago
My biggest source of hope for the climate crisis is that we got into our current state by expending enormous amounts of human labour. Those mines didn't dig themselves, those factories didn't build themselves, those highway networks didn't fill with cars by themselves.
It took effort to fuck things up, which means that with effort, we can un-fuck things as well.
- int_19h 7y agoThe problem is that we've spun up a bunch of positive feedback loops in the process, and so un-fucking things is a lot costlier.
- henrikschroder 7y agoIn some cases, yes, in some cases, no. Reforestation for example appears to be very cheap, fast, and simple.
- int_19h 7y agoIs it cheaper in terms of man-hours spent on each kilo of carbon sequestered, compared to man-hours spent on emitting it?