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No one is suggesting it be solved one ton at a time. A billion different solutions all working together is how it is solved. This is one of those billion.
by coldpie 6y ago
No one is suggesting it be solved one ton at a time. A billion different solutions all working together is how it is solved. This is one of those billion.
- rapnie 6y agoExactly. I see the all or nothing, now or never argument being made very often. The 'all now, all together' is quite unlikely to happen so that leaves resigning to a 'never gonna happen' defeatism. Instead every little bit still counts, and we need to speed up contributing them to our efforts.
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- LatteLazy 6y agoThat's fine, but now you need another 999,999,999 solutions. Until they're here and implimented along with this one, we don't have an actual overall solution do we? Oh wait, no, emissions went up again while we've been talking and getting this ready. So we actually need one billion and three more solutions to get to the same place the original billion would have got is to. This is the reality of it situation. Sorry to be so bleak. But I think people (a) think we're making progress, and by any actual measure we are not and (b) think that piecemeal, you-do-you solutions will work, when they haven't for the last 50+ years.
- cglace 6y agoSo your answer to zenos paradox is to never start?
- LatteLazy 6y agoI'm just pointing out we're headed backwards off a cliff. You can't solve zenos paradox by walking further way and starting later...
- cglace 6y agoMy point is that you shouldn't shout at people taking steps. You should encourage them to take more steps.
- LatteLazy 6y agoThat's exactly the point I'm refuting. That's what we've done for 40 years. It's failed every single year. It's failed disastrously badly. We need accept this has failed in order to change to something that might work. At this point, even doing nothing would be better, at least it would save time and be honest.