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Despite disagreements, actions seems obvious and non-controversial... 1) Invest/innovate to get clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels w/o subsidies 2) Figure out how to take CO2 out of atmosphere, just in case What am I missing?
(1) is hard without indirectly increasing fossil fuel use (e.g. materials to make windmills) or substantially degrading functionality (from tractors to airplanes to weed-whackers to concrete to much else), (2) would be great if we actually know how to do with reasonable economy.
Great opportunity for pulling CO2 is building soil. Sequesters a looot and is also something with many positive effects and externalities in its own right. Problem is we subsidize soil destroying agriculture, not soil building.
Mother nature has built these amazing machines that sequester carbon: Trees. And once they start running, zero maintenance cost.
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You can have a lot of soil underneath trees and other plants.
Planting trees and building soil are also good solutions bc less politically controversial. We all want a world with more trees and richer soil. Stopping dumb subsidies would have to come from the right. The left would be accused of attacking "our farmers".
the right & left are arguing who should steer the civilization bus that's already been driven off the cliff...
My life cycle analysis lead me to batteries as the biggest road block, but I think even current technologies can improve functionality on critical metrics without increasing fossil fuel use. Barring airplanes; those have no feasible alternative yet
Next gen “clean” tech offers enough improvement to the current system that all these points are moot. A wind, solar, battery, and natural gas based economy will make energy consumption cleaner, cheaper and more reliable, while giving more control to consumers within 40 years.
ie risk and climate change aside, the system we build w these new assets will just be flat out better across every metric.
Yes, will be hard and couldn't happen overnight. But I think not as hard as selling people on decreasing their living standards.
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