My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by retrac on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:03AM (#27853423)

> we'll discover some magical bullet, that we haven't thought of

Surely there are in fact, many technologies that we have thought of, that could help in a number of ways, if only we could realize them as practical and/or get them adopted in terms of politics and the economy.

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by adrianN on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:49AM (#27853626)

The "a technological solution" crowd isn't looking for something that requires lots of money to roll out, like renewable energy.

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by rbanffy on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:23AM (#27855134)

If you count the externalities of nuclear (eventually having to abandon a city every hundred years or so), gas (some pollution, catastrophic climate change), and coal (pollution, catastrophic climate change), wind and solar look really cheap. Hydro can also be useful by creating reservoirs of fresh water for managing drought cycles.

The biggest issue is that we don’t monetize the externalities in the current state.

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by adrianN on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:55AM (#27855729)

The biggest issue is that the costs of not changing anything will have to be paid long after the next election, so why do something today?

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by rbanffy on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:06PM (#27861769)

I always assume humans want their offspring to survive, but COVID taught us that a lot of people will gladly work for our extinction.

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