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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by QuickToBan on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:08PM (#20403294)
Various governments are still heavily subsidizing fossil fuels, and so it's an unfair game. How can renewables win in this scenario...
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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by beat on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:23PM (#20404145)
They won't keep doing it. The advantages of renewables are too strong.

The thing about politicians that can be bought, is that someone else can buy them, too. If they're not ideologically committed to the cause, if it's just political, then they'll turn on the cause in the name of either ideological goals or simple practicality.

There's a hard limit to how much harm a politician is willing to do to their own country in order to placate special interests with nothing to offer but money.

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by jsnider3 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:33PM (#20403576)
Lobbying and voting for pro-renewable politicians (or at least those that are neutral).
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