the entire economical / technological trajectory of things and just lack of combined effort that is effective enough means that without some massively heroic effort and probably some miracles, carbon emission sequestration efforts will whiff
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
it's actual political will that's needed because there are simply so many sectors effected and it's really hard to justify turning off a coal or gas plant without it we're supposed to do something like this: (image source http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ ) and we're... not.pic.twitter.com/ue0aW82qQi
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
what that means practically for the planet is, you know, debatable, up to the science, there are predictions of course, but what everything always misses is the feedback loops, both positive and negative. but really the many examples of what we're seeing from what's happening is
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
basically we under estimate the feedback loop magnitude. there's all kinds of stuff that gets worse by a lot. and it's going to have massive effects, perhaps with many knock on social effects. nobody is totally insulated from that, but if you are rich maybe you cope,
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Replying to @DanielleFong
yeah. i guess i'm just banking on multiple breakthroughs, for sure things look bad at present day tho
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Replying to @powerbottomdad1
what you haven't seen is dozens of breakthroughs get killed by the reality of raising multiple funding rounds through multiple classes of stakeholders, none of which know what they want
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Replying to @powerbottomdad1
if there actually was continuous effective support for stuff that wasn't, you know, corrupted! also! in some other areas an entire market subsector can be distorted by a company that hogs all the subsidies, but never makes it to actually competitive price
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
I think it's just basically not understood that our scale and inaction on things has essentially lead to it being a 10x heavier lift to actually meet the 'goals' that the science suggests we must! not a lot of reality checking going on. consider air travel, forest fires, cement
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
this other stuff is kind of 'lumped' into efforts to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, which, again, is way way harder than people realize. a friend of mine was pretty senior at one of these companies recently, just left -- not a great sign. lots to be dubious about...
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even just my 'field' energy storage we're not close to solving it as a matter of volume till Tesla gets like another 100 gigafactories operational. consider the effect on the world of 100 more gigafactories. they already want to lynch him for doing snl. 
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