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All and any solutions (except living with it) fail because they lack a global enforcement mechanism. Individual and national action has been failing for this re
by LatteLazy 4y ago
All and any solutions (except living with it) fail because they lack a global enforcement mechanism. Individual and national action has been failing for this reason for decades. All of the "treaties" signed so far lack the same core element. The nice thing about a technological solution (really you need multiple solutions but assume they all arrive at the same time) would be that it would self organise (people will choose to move to fusion power IF it is cheaper than coal etc). But it's now too late for that too since even if the solutions came out tomorrow, any chance of implementing them globally before the 2040s is basically gone (no one will buy a tesla for 60k to save 5k a year in fuel costs, no one will spend 10bn on a fusion power plant when they already have a newish gas turbine plant with 30 years of life left in it).
The key now adaptation. But as was the case with the problem 30 years ago, it will take 30 years for people to take that seriously. It's not until people are already drowning that they will pay for a life-preserver and by then it's too late...