Not everyone has come around to the understanding that we're not going to solve this problem by having Meatless Mondays and recycling more. The fact is that ev

Not everyone has come around to the understanding that we're not going to solve this problem by having Meatless Mondays and recycling more. The fact is that even if we turned off all greenhouse gas production today, we'd still be in a lot of trouble, and at this point only a technological solution is going to avert a catastrophe. And we're not going to turn off all greenhouse gas production today, so the need to find a technological solution is even greater. So many of these HN threads turn into people saying "well, this technological solution could go wrong, we should just reduce consumption instead", not realizing the actual level of emergency we're in. It's a bullet everyone is going to have to bite eventually, and (if history is an indication) probably too late.