Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or What They Can Do

Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by ReptileMan on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:11AM (#18750489)

You could try making the dirty tech economically inferior on its own terms. Then the clean will be adopted with blazing speed. Nobody burns oil and coal because they like the smell.

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Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by alacombe on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:10AM (#18750704)

Lower EV prices to $10k with a 250 miles range and refill time below 10 minutes (pretty much the standard european/asian small car) and I'll buy one right now.

The technology just isn't there currently...

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Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by zamalek on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:13AM (#18750497)

It's rapidly approaching that point already. The problem is politicians and it seems as though we are powerless to change that.

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Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by ReptileMan on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:20AM (#18750523)

USSR showed that when politicians and economy colide heads on politicians lose. Reality always wins at the end.

Supressing superior technology is extremely hard. If you succeed it is just not superior enough.

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Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by PavlovsCat on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:09AM (#18750698)

People can't claim powerlessness before they even tried. It's an excuse to not even try.

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Re:Americans Don’t Understand How Bad Climate Change Is or W... by adrianN on Monday December 24, 2018 @12:27AM (#18750546)

But they might just burn oil and coal to save jobs.

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