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We spend literal trillions on waging war. Every rocket fired in Ukraine today would pay for solar panels for a house or two. It's not a matter of money. Look ho
by adrianN 4y ago
We spend literal trillions on waging war. Every rocket fired in Ukraine today would pay for solar panels for a house or two. It's not a matter of money. Look how well we managed to to switch literally all industry to building weapons during the last world war. If we wanted to we could do the same for renewable energy. It's a matter of priorities.
But in actuality, it's much easier to do than that, because renewable energy is not all that expensive or hard to build. In many scenarios it's profitable to build it today, but bureaucracy is in the way. The proper market incentives and a bit of legislation would probably be enough to have private industry take over.
- josephcsible 4y ago> Every rocket fired in Ukraine today would pay for solar panels for a house or two. But it's more important that we stop Putin from just taking whatever territory he wants and killing as many civilians as it takes to do that than it is to put solar panels on a few more houses.
- hackerlight 4y ago
- adrianN 4y agoOf course it is. Right now. But what about the last thirty years?
- josephcsible 4y agoIf you don't spend any money on your military except when you need it, it will take so long to get it back up to speed that you'll probably lose the war in the meantime.
- adrianN 4y agoAnd if you don't spend any money on renewable energy life for a large fraction of our species will become much harder. And it's not like military spending is really necessary either. The US for example spent a lot of money in Afghanistan and Iraq even though the country wasn't under reasonable threat from those actors.