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Maybe Greenland will finally get populated and maybe people will stop living in hurricane zones

ethanbond 3y ago
Yes yes the solution here is to physically move hundreds or thousands of years of capital investment, especially forms of capital investment that cannot be moved and are just abandoned/destroyed. That way we can emit a bunch more to rebuild that already-built infrastructure in a different locale!
- eastof 3y ago
  You're forgetting that the rebuild is only for survivors so it's a smaller scale.
- tempaccount420 3y ago
  To be honest, we could use a hard reset like that every once in a while.
  - glial 3y ago
    Maybe the new cities could be built to be walkable.
    - berniedurfee 3y ago
      Unfortunately, humanity repeats itself.
      - Aerbil313 3y ago
        This time it won’t because there aint any fuel left.
        badtension 3y ago
        That would be a cool story plot: starting civilization again with all the knowledge but none of the fossil fuel power. Solarpunk?
        Aerbil313 3y ago
        I think you overestimate how much knowledge there will be left.
        badtension 3y ago
        Of course not all the knowledge will be left but enough to easily build basic engines using Stirling or Carnot cycles or even pressurized steam. Solar panels don't have to be 25% efficient, 5% amorphous silicon cells would also be very useful.
    - gdilla 3y ago
      the little domed areas we will call cities will be walkable. so there's that!
- tim333 3y ago
  There's a lot of time though. It's more a matter of the kids or grandkids moving somewhere colder rather than anything sudden. And the biggest problem with building a new house up north is getting planning permission. The actual construction can be relatively trivial.
  - gdilla 3y ago
    It's somewhat ironic all the billionaires are about space and mars and shit - like, ok, super in-hospitable, go for it. While we should be building our space fortresses and geo domes on earth to keep the elements out, and survive on some kind of lab food.

Yes yes the solution here is to physically move hundreds or thousands of years of capital investment, especially forms of capital investment that cannot be moved and are just abandoned/destroyed. That way we can emit a bunch more to rebuild that already-built infrastructure in a different locale!

eastof 3y ago
You're forgetting that the rebuild is only for survivors so it's a smaller scale.
tempaccount420 3y ago
To be honest, we could use a hard reset like that every once in a while.
- glial 3y ago
  Maybe the new cities could be built to be walkable.
  - berniedurfee 3y ago
    Unfortunately, humanity repeats itself.
    - Aerbil313 3y ago
      This time it won’t because there aint any fuel left.
      - badtension 3y ago
        That would be a cool story plot: starting civilization again with all the knowledge but none of the fossil fuel power. Solarpunk?
        Aerbil313 3y ago
        I think you overestimate how much knowledge there will be left.
        badtension 3y ago
        Of course not all the knowledge will be left but enough to easily build basic engines using Stirling or Carnot cycles or even pressurized steam. Solar panels don't have to be 25% efficient, 5% amorphous silicon cells would also be very useful.
  - gdilla 3y ago
    the little domed areas we will call cities will be walkable. so there's that!
tim333 3y ago
There's a lot of time though. It's more a matter of the kids or grandkids moving somewhere colder rather than anything sudden. And the biggest problem with building a new house up north is getting planning permission. The actual construction can be relatively trivial.
- gdilla 3y ago
  It's somewhat ironic all the billionaires are about space and mars and shit - like, ok, super in-hospitable, go for it. While we should be building our space fortresses and geo domes on earth to keep the elements out, and survive on some kind of lab food.