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> But everyone isn't going to just give up all that and go live in a small apartment in the big city. Some people are going to have to make decisions like the
by paulcole 5y ago
> But everyone isn't going to just give up all that and go live in a small apartment in the big city.
Some people are going to have to make decisions like the ones I've laid out (it's how I chose to live my life, but not for environmental reasons).
If not, that's fine too, but then enjoy the next 50ish years before things get real bad.
- goatlover 5y agoThe reality is that people are still going to do those things on a global scale regardless of what some people do. Solutions have to take human behavior on a that scale into account. 50 years of thinking about the problem while technology improves and society adapts is reason for hope. Maybe in that time a lot more people will adopt a standard of living you suggest as part of that adaptation (with cities adapted to suit that lifestyle), while renewable energy completely replaces fossil fuels, and things like carbon capture become a reality, along with tree planting initiatives and other ideas being tossed around know to mitigate climate change.
- paulcole 5y agoAs I said in my original post: > Whether you choose to do them or rationalize a way to not do them doesn't matter that much My point is that there is no meaningful solution. I present the best individual actions the average HN reader can take. Either do them or don’t. The world 50-75 years from now is going to be unimaginably ugly for a huge number of people who just don’t think it can happen to them (or their kids/grandkids). This is regardless of whether I get on a plane again (I won’t) or whether we start planting trees.