Climate shouters: "If we don't abolish capitalism right now, THE PLANET WILL DIE" Me: "Even if abolishing capitalism reduced emissions considerably, the U.S produces only a modest fraction of carbon emissions."
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Climate shouters: "So what do you propose we do?!" Me: "Invest in creating green energy technologies, especially via private businesses that learn to build cheaper energy storage at scale, then transfer the tech to poor countries and pay them to adopt it quickly."
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I am coming around to nuclear just being impractical. It will take to long to spin up enough nuclear power capacity, and too many people have an irrational fear of it.
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It doesn't have to take too long to spin up enough nuclear power capacity. See this paper, for example.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124074 …
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