>Let's say people in the 70s knew climate change was happening. The broad understanding of it was known in the late 70s, and even accepted by politicians by th

>Let's say people in the 70s knew climate change was happening. The broad understanding of it was known in the late 70s, and even accepted by politicians by the early 80s as a policy requirement before it became politicised later. >I don't think we had the technology back then to do much about it. We could have slowed it down a bit, but not stop it. If you think of the massive exponential growth of oil/gas consumption and the level of deforestation since the 70s - even just slowing it down back then would've bought a much longer window of time to tackle it with less disruption as well as develop technologies to help fix/mitigate it.