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At current rates of carbon outlay, there won’t be much of a world left to save in 100 years.
by nr2x 5y ago
At current rates of carbon outlay, there won’t be much of a world left to save in 100 years.
- pkdpic_y9k 5y agoNot unless we all work our asses off! Engineers can do anything :^)
- matmatmatmat 5y ago... except politics, engineers are usually not very good at politics, and climate change is, in large part, a political problem.
- pkdpic_y9k 5y agoagain, I love me some doom trolling but only if it helps motivate work, and if software engineers can build platforms that undermine democracy I gotta believe its at least possible they can undermine bad politics too
- dantheman 5y agoIt's a technology problem unless you want condemn most of the world to an incredibly low standard of living.
- ben_w 5y agoYes, but what we can do is try to invent things which are better then the status quo in terms of both money and the environment — if people use those inventions for purely selfish reasons, they’re still helping the world.
- kortilla 5y agoThat statement isn’t backed by science
- nr2x 5y ago“We are currently on track for a rise of between 6.3° and 13.3°F, with a high probability of an increase of 9.4°F by 2100” https://www.climatecentral.org/news/ipcc-predictions-then-versus-now-15340 https://www.climatecentral.org/news/ipcc-predictions-then-ve...