| ▲ | Ekaros an hour ago |
| That is fundamentally the problem with whole thing. Vast majority of population on Earth is not ready for personal sacrifices needed. And if some government will get to around it, I am pretty sure they will be replaced and most things are rolled back. My guess is that we somehow end up geoengineering it with even more debt... |
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| ▲ | nradov an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| The solution will have to come from growth and technical innovations, not personal sacrifice. |
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| ▲ | ericmay an hour ago | parent [-] | | I agree, because (and I'm being a bit flippant) I sure as hell am not giving up my gas stove while billionaires fly around in private jets and MAGA guys are coal-rolling in their F-250s... It seems to me that carbon capture technology plus renewables and nuclear + dream energy (fission) will be the future but we're probably not going to go off of fossil fuels much, which will necessitate in part the need to suck this stuff out of the atmosphere. |
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| ▲ | glitchc an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why would they be when they see the hypocrisy of the chattering classes? How many celebrities or billionaires have curtailed their own lifestyles while pitching for climate change? Has the number of luxury jets and superyatches gone up or down over time? The average person may seem stupid but they are paying attention to the actions, and it all sounds like "I got mine, screw yours" to them. |
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| ▲ | everdrive an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Hypocrisy is really not as useful as people think. Imagine if some man, who beat his wife, made a career of talking about the important and harrowing issues of domestic abuse. People would rightly scratch their heads at such an over-the-top hypocrite. But surely, the man would be correct: domestic abuse is an important issue. And imagine a response from the peanut gallery? "I'm not going to stop beating my _own_ wife until that hypocrite gets his comeuppance!" | |
| ▲ | netsharc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Standard tragedy of the commons behavior... And people in developing countries complain that "why should beef or jet vacations be taxed more, those Westerners got to enjoy it, and now when we want to enjoy it, it's suddenly bad?". And we rich Westerners think it's sacrifice to have to drive an EV or pay more for beef... | |
| ▲ | rwmj an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What have luxury jets and superyachts got to do with the chattering classes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattering_classes | | | |
| ▲ | ifwinterco an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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