Narh. We'll keep going until we don't. There's no silver bullet to solve all our problems. We have a few half-baked suggestions, but none is good enough. Gettin

Narh. We'll keep going until we don't. There's no silver bullet to solve all our problems. We have a few half-baked suggestions, but none is good enough. Getting everyone to agree on developing one into a state that will be good enough won't happen, so we'll have to make do with a dozen different solutions that is nowhere near enough on their own. With luck, we can control the damage sufficiently to prevent catastrophic failure and a repeat of the Bronze age collapse. Giving up on recent developments sounds good in principle, but the fact is that energy usage in the middle classes is slowly going down. If we want an equal distribution of energy usage, then we'd need to go back to pre-WW2 levels in order to be sustainable. And that somehow assumes we retain our current ability to produce clean technology while reducing usage to a level that most people simply won't accept. The middle class wasted a _lot_ of energy in the 60's and early 70's. I remain optimistic in hoping that multiple smaller solutions will be enough to prevent the proverbial shit from hitting the fan. Synth fuels is one such solution. As is EV's, insulating homes, or being better at keeping old infrastructure running for longer in order to avoid wasting resources on replacing said old infrastructure. Not because they solve the root cause of the problem, but because it's better than to keep going with fossil fuels, or to force changes without being at all prepared for the consequences. I'm not saying you're wrong. But I remain hopeful that you are.