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Wow, that was a bucket of water in my face the likes of which I’ve never felt before! We are 100% completely screwed! We simply cannot maintain our standard of
by chongli 4y ago
Wow, that was a bucket of water in my face the likes of which I’ve never felt before! We are 100% completely screwed! We simply cannot maintain our standard of living into the future. The picture this professor paints is so incredibly bleak that it puts the war in Ukraine and a potential war in Taiwan into perspective.
Imagine if all the passengers on the Titanic had nuclear weapons. That’s the situation we’re in. And there are no lifeboats.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoExcept that all these problems are soluble. We can adapt to climate change. We can create new (clean!) energy sources. Solar is getting more efficient every year. There are new storage solutions appearing every year. As TFA says, despair is not the answer. We can (and will) overcome all these problems.
- throwanapple 4y agoCan you expand more on those new storage solutions?
- marcus_holmes 4y agohere let me google that for you... https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitsubishiheavyindustries/2022/02/17/4-energy-storage-solutions-that-will-help-the-planet-achieve-net-zero/?sh=78f2d78d4ce4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitsubishiheavyindustries/2022/...
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- goodpoint 4y ago> We simply cannot maintain our standard of living into the future. Don't make the mistake of confusing energy use with quality of life. People like to make such alarmist statement around standard of living but we should instead ask ourselves what makes for quality of life. A good example is planned obsolescence in technology: it greatly increases energy usage and pollution without making consumers happier (on the contrary they hate it)
- chongli 4y agoDon't make the mistake of conflating carbon emissions with transportation. So much of our society is built on carbon and personal automobiles are only a part of it. Cement production, globalized shipping, fertilizers for growing food, natural gas for making steel and other heavy industry. No matter how you slice it, wind and solar can't replace any of that stuff.
- 8note 4y agoWind and solar might not, but that isn't to say that there arent replacements