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I hear you. I’ve been telling people we needed nuclear for over 2 decades. Kyoto Climate Deal was 25 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

I hear you. I’ve been telling people we needed nuclear for over 2 decades. Kyoto Climate Deal was 25 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol The United States took a pass. Instead we kicked the can down the road. China expanded its coal power capacity enormously. So did India. Now we are going to soon reach 1.5C. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/5/17/global-warming-likely-to-breach-1-5c-threshold-for-first-time https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/5/17/global-warming-... We’ve basically failed our initial goals and will need many miracles to properly address climate change. Hopefully, our first failure will compel us to come up with something workable before it gets a lot worse. Good luck.

resolutebat 3y ago
China is simultaneously the world's largest user of coal, solar and wind power, all at the same time. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-clean-dirty-power-records-2022-maguire-2022-11-23/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-... Clean energy share continues to climb though, and they've also made huge strides in air quality. India, on the other hand, seems to be going from bad to worse on both fronts.
- melling 3y ago
  We need to quit telling ourselves stories, do the math, and find a workable solution that addresses the problem before we reach “too late” At this point we need to address several problems at once. There’s no one solution and we need to be relatively quick. Also, Coal is still the low hanging fruit because it produces 20% of emissions. It needs to go to zero as soon as possible. https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-critical-tackle-coal-emissions https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-critical-tackle-coal-... Maybe gone by 2040?
  - _hypx 3y ago
    It's already "too late" for any such solution. We are already at the point where geoengineering is necessary. But of course, environmentalists oppose that too.

resolutebat 3y ago

China is simultaneously the world's largest user of coal, solar and wind power, all at the same time. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-clean-dirty-power-records-2022-maguire-2022-11-23/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-... Clean energy share continues to climb though, and they've also made huge strides in air quality. India, on the other hand, seems to be going from bad to worse on both fronts.

melling 3y ago
We need to quit telling ourselves stories, do the math, and find a workable solution that addresses the problem before we reach “too late” At this point we need to address several problems at once. There’s no one solution and we need to be relatively quick. Also, Coal is still the low hanging fruit because it produces 20% of emissions. It needs to go to zero as soon as possible. https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-critical-tackle-coal-emissions https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-critical-tackle-coal-... Maybe gone by 2040?
- _hypx 3y ago
  It's already "too late" for any such solution. We are already at the point where geoengineering is necessary. But of course, environmentalists oppose that too.