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Unfortunately, you're both right. Decarbonization is the best thing to do by a large margin, both in a cost-benefit sense and in a net impact sense. It's stupi
by elbasti 3y ago
Unfortunately, you're both right.
Decarbonization is the best thing to do by a large margin, both in a cost-benefit sense and in a net impact sense. It's stupid to burn coal to produce $X worth of electricity and then spend many multiples of $X just to remove a tiny fraction of the carbon.
But you're also right that decarbonization won't occur in the amount required by 2060.
Which, quite frankly and plainly, just means we're fucked. Not even going into positive feedback loops of natural methane emissions due to warming arctic and tropics.
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah when Obama said we're the first generation to feel the effects and the last one able to do anything about it, he was right. One way or another we're locked in now. Of course there are still options to avoid the worst but they'd require such an immediate turnaround and international collaboration at a time when geopolitical polarization and tensions are ultra high. I just don't see it happening.