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Is any of this going to have an impact if China isn't on board? It's good to help Senegal or Vietnam transition to cleaner energy sources, but it's a drop in th
by AlexandrB 2y ago
Is any of this going to have an impact if China isn't on board? It's good to help Senegal or Vietnam transition to cleaner energy sources, but it's a drop in the bucket.
The other problem is the dismal financial state of many western countries. Shipping more taxpayer money overseas is a hard sell if the economy is already in shambles.
- fnordian 2y agoIt might https://www.nber.org/papers/w33364 https://www.nber.org/papers/w33364
- EA-3167 2y agoNo, realistically what would be required now is simply not going to happen, and we should really start figuring out what that's going to look like and what it means. Tbh people who weren't paralyzed by hope could have told you this decades ago, human nature at scale isn't exactly unpredictable. Ironically the one technology that could have really saved our butts (fission) was rejected for being environmentally unsound.