• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    This too shall pass and once it has, we shall remember the names of those that pushed genocides, those that pushed anti science that will inevitably cause the next pandemic.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I mean this is a pretty weak ass take and it’s not even really right. Like after this “passes” we will be fully locked in to rocketing off the edge of the climate abyss and there is nothing anyone could possibly do to prevent it. They will try with Geo engineering but that’s a toss up at best.

      No one will remember anyone.

      • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        Climate change has a relatively cheap and easy solution.

        Aresol sprays can buy a few decades of time if things get too hot.

        We already have cheap solar and cheap batteries are becoming a reality. We only need a cheap, non-intermittent energy source to provide baseload energy. Cheap nuclear power is possible and can fill that niche - we had the tech in the past and China has it today.

        For about $1T a fleet of reactors could be built to extract all the excess carbon from the atmosphere in 50 years, working in tandem with cheap solar energy and cheap batteries to power human civilization.