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Re:Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change by nmeofthestate on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @08:38AM (#17661910)
>We have a solution - reduce carbon/methane emissions. Why bet the bank on a technology that hasn't been invented yet?

Unfortunately we haven't invented the technology to implement your broad brush "solution" either.

In fact, I'm skeptical about the claim Climate Change could have been solved generations ago, given that we still haven't developed the means to do it yet.

Edit: okay, perhaps nuclear could provide us with the masses of power generation we need, but that's been ruled out.

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Re:Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change by majewsky on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:26AM (#17662256)
> In fact, I'm skeptical about the claim Climate Change could have been solved generations ago, given that we still haven't developed the means to do it yet.

Path dependence. We have not developed the means to solve climate change from where we are now.

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