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The dotted lines represent in 80 years. Think where we were 80 years ago, it was before WW2, before the atomic age. With the current technological progress pict
by alfor 3y ago
The dotted lines represent in 80 years.
Think where we were 80 years ago, it was before WW2, before the atomic age.
With the current technological progress picture the human race in 80 years.
Just in 20 years we will have massive solar energy generation, EV as the only cars availables, probably same for nuclear, maybe fusion even. Now think of the advance in computing and AI in 20 years! Genetic engineering?
To think that climate change will be a problem in 80 years depend on those kind of linear projections.
Now in 80 years I wonder where we will be with regards to population collapse, to our sense of self, communities with what social networks have done just in the last 10 years.
Again, I don’t know how people can assume the same linear future for 80 years.
So yes assuming that things stay the same for 80 years we might have a (small) problem with that at that point, but imagine all the other things we are missing by focusing so much in this small problem in the far future.
We are living the singularity, this moment is not like the 1000’s of year before.
- kaba0 3y agoWhat economic reason is their to stop climate catastrophe? There is not even an inch of progress without money in this current era.
- alfor 3y agoLook at Tesla: 50% growth Year over year, highly profitable. They make EV, grid batteries and solar. The price of solar PV is dropping so fast that solar electricity will be almost free in a few years. Today it cost just a fraction to charge an EV compared to fuel a gas car, and the price of EV is dropping every year. Basically just economically it will not be worth it to extract coal and oil out of the ground before climate change is a real problem. Renewable are following an exponential curves but they are still small compared to oil and coal but project their growth for the next 10 years and you will see a very different picture. Tony Seba predicted accurately the transition almost 10 year ago. https://youtu.be/fsnkPLkf1ao https://youtu.be/fsnkPLkf1ao
- kaba0 3y agoWhat about the insane amount of plastic produced? Also, EVs are hardly a solution, if you account for all the batteries they are hardly better. Public transportation, even when not EV is a much more climate-friendly solution, there is no reason to transport a 100kg human with a 1500kg vehicle just for fun.