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Having confidence about engineering ourselves out of our mistakes is, after all, the conservative rationale for ignoring Climate Change. They're certain that ou
by markoman 3y ago
Having confidence about engineering ourselves out of our mistakes is, after all, the conservative rationale for ignoring Climate Change. They're certain that out of the sky will fall the technology for combating the runaway warming of the earth and it all happen just in time (mind you) before any major harm is visited on the earth's populations.
The actions from the Right that are more directly disingenuous are where they try to deny scientific conclusions and the damage already done. They'll post on twitter (implicit denials of sea level rise by) showing 150 year old pictures of seaside landmarks beside today's version with similar sea levels. Yet where are are counter-arguments for why the arctic sea ice/ice shelf is in such worse shape than it was just 30 years ago?
- gigatexal 3y agoholy crap -- my pithy comment blew up a bit. I'm really digging the discussion. Why haven't we seen all the amazing properties of graphene commercialized yet? like super capacitors made from graphene that replace batteries and can insta-charge?