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I'm generally positive about both climate tech, and climate diplomacy, but don't feel it's right to be so cavalier about the potential downsides. Like, one of
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
I'm generally positive about both climate tech, and climate diplomacy, but don't feel it's right to be so cavalier about the potential downsides.
Like, one of my "climate apocalypse" bingo squares was "Russia starts a war to prolong fossil fuel usage". It currently looks like that will backfire and, on balance, be a positive for sorting out climate change, but we're talking about the "positives" of a war with potentially hundreds of thousands of dead! Where people were gleefully predicting the collapse of Western Europe governments and replacement with right wing populists who would stop any attempts to continue supporting the "climate hoax"!
A war is the kind of thing that can go very wrong, and this is neither the first, nor the last, war that people could attribute to climate change.