I know its techno optimism, but forgive me.
There are so many solutions available now that could massively accelerate mitigations to our current climate woes. Solar, wind and batteries (and big nukes where they make sense) for power. Heat pumps for low grade industrial heating and home haeting. >1800C heat batteries for industrial heat. Even properly biodegradable plastics to help with direct pollution.
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Yes the last 10% will be hard, yes we should probably consume less stuff, yes capitalism.
But right now we have proven technologies, available at the necessary scale to real make some serious progress; and they are actually cheaper than doing the wrong things. The "easy" parts make up 80-90% of the problem, so we can fix 80-90% of the problem now.
Literally the only thing stopping us is that leaders all over the world chose not to do so.
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@Tallish_Tom Leaders, yes, they are obstructive and greedy. But will we all do what it takes, if our leaders suddenly start doing what they should? Will we stop shopping, consuming (everything, money, resources, etc), and polluting?
No, we won't. We will die first.
And die we will... 😭
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>Literally the only thing stopping us is that leaders all over the world chose not to do so
That's just blame shifting and not true in the democratic countries. Politicans said they wouldn't take it seriously and we voted for them to not take it seriously.
Eg Labour in the UK said they would expand oil and gas in The North Sea BEFORE they were elected, similary in Australia, Labor said they would expand oil and coal mining, not once did Carney in Canada say he would shut the Canada oil industry, simiilary in NZ they said BEFORE the election, they would reopen oil and gas exploration....all elected by voters. Nothing changes until voters do.
Why is Reform polling higher then The Greens in the UK? If voters were taking this seriously The Greens would be in power in the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand etal not to get the Greens elected per se but to move the Overton Window as it should have been decades ago and the truly radical polticans we need would and could be heard. What politicians are arguing the obvious need to; ban flying, ban advertising, ban meat eating pets, ban cruise ships, ban gasoline powered yard equipment, pleasure craft, criminalise billionaires etc etc etc ?
It's a fair point... But
Most people get their information from organisations that are highly aligned with forces resisting change the disinformation is phenomenal. The fact that you talk if banning to banning pets & meat is exactly the game the right play; "Look, life will be shit, they'll shoot your dog & make you eat lentils."
Most people don't want change & certainly don't want inconvenience. OTOH most people did not vote for banning cheap Chinese imports of green tech.
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So we need to work on that. People can be brought along with time. But leaders don't want to engage with making the argument or are actively pushing other way.
meanwhile we can reduce emissions a lot, there are cheap electric cars available, cheap solar and batteries, cheap turbines, heat pumps for homes & thermal batteries for industry; & transmission. Any reduction now wins us more time to make the arguments, come up with workarounds and discover how to do the hard stuff.
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