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Human ingenuity is irrelevant if there isn't popular support for solving the problem. Look at climate change, there's plenty of evidence for its dire effects an
by minikites 5y ago
Human ingenuity is irrelevant if there isn't popular support for solving the problem. Look at climate change, there's plenty of evidence for its dire effects and plenty of ways we could be addressing it, but we're doing nothing because enough people believe it's a leftist conspiracy. Human ingenuity will always lose to human selfishness.
- MattGaiser 5y agoHuman ingenuity can be applied to adaptation. Growing almonds in the desert beside golf courses in the desert doesn't really make sense, but engineering found a way.
- revscat 5y agoThere are limits. If rainfall stops no amount of engineering will make the rivers flow or crops grow. If the ocean acidifies and fish stocks plummet, there is no engineering solution for that. This faith people have in engineering just boggles my mind. Look to Venus. That is where our atmosphere is headed.
- iiggyy 5y agoNobody doubts there will probably be some planning of climate doom mitigation, but the reason we're in this mess is because of misplaced human ingenuity. We can grow almonds in deserts beside golf courses, yes. But should we have been doing it in the first place? All of our terraforming for the present world we live in today is at the expense of future generations prosperity.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoHuman ingenuity is incredibly relevant because it can bring the price point of solving the problem down to somewhere where popular support can be found.