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Re:Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing by sqeaky on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:58PM (#15100093)
We don't have that level of tech, you may as well have provided a story about merlin or gandalf.

It may well actually be the doom of civilization as we know it, and should be treated as the existential threat it might be. We should be funding science, legislating environmental protection and doing whatever else we can think of until we have magic or know this is safe.

Re:Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing by sametmax on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:03PM (#15100146)
+1. Besides even if we had the tech and knowledge, we need the resources, time, dedication and will to apply the solutions. Not to mention the ability to carry it out, and together no less.
Re:Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing by crush-n-spread on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:58PM (#15100689)
I know that we should be funding that stuff but unfortunately trying to go through tradtional grant-based funding routes is going to be much too slow; what you need to do is start private companies on your own and rapidly grow their value and use that as a starting point for global geo-engineering solutions to global warming