Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee...
by croes on Saturday February 26, 2022 @05:39AM
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>This is why pushback against climate change policies is, I believe, a healthy thing.
No, it's not. In the past we did next to nothing and we now see the consequences. We may fail if we try, but we are guaranteed to fail if we don't.
And science is like democracy, it's not perfect sometimes even bad, but it's still the best we have. Everything else is worse.
Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee...
by goodpoint on Saturday February 26, 2022 @07:26AM
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> Yes, protecting the environment is super important, but time and time again we are told to trust the science
What's the alternative? Trust big oil companies instead?
Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee...
by visarga on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:04AM
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You can't have discovery without taking risks, and you can't generalize one problem to the other problems. Keeping the status quo has its own cost.
Re:You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill dee...
by octoberfranklin on Saturday February 26, 2022 @05:27AM
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> a really powerful tool to fight back against folks who treat science like an infallible religion.
The only tool needed for that is a really simple one: a bumper sticker that says "when you mix science and politics you get politics".
People who can't grok that are not going to come around.
We see this with everything: social policy, monetary policy, tax policy, etc.
I think a public online resource that documents instances like this, where the experts, or the government, told us X, but it ended up being Y, would be a really powerful tool to fight back against folks who treat science like an infallible religion.