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Re:Air pollution is worse than we thought by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:02PM (#24146976)
> but 100% renewables without daily blackouts is incredibly hard.

Well, maybe we should just get accustomed to daily blackouts? I mean yeah, it's inconvenient, but so is being choked to death by pollution and staring down a global climate catastrophe. Besides, being accustomed to blackouts would make us better prepared for other causes of blackouts, like a chaos monkey for our power dependency. And to top it all off: people will need to find something to do when their power is out, like maybe go outside and see what we've been working so hard to destroy with our giant SUVs and whatnot.

...I think I'm only half kidding, actually.

Re:Air pollution is worse than we thought by jhardy54 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:37PM (#24152195)
Yep, I'd take daily blackouts over climate catastrophe any day. We don't need perfect, we need to not ruin the planet for future generations.