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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by bscphil on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:58PM (#31429071)
> Also, the very premise that more CO2 is existential is contradicted by historical record: 250 million years ago earth was 15 degrees warmer than it is now and CO2 was a lot more abundant.

Maybe this is just a joke that sailed over my head, but this is obviously false and doesn't mean anything of the sort. Existential for whom? All you can definitely conclude is that the Earth won't explode if the climate increases by 15 degrees. You can guess that life would survive, but there were no humans back (or large mammals at all) back then. There's no reason to think we would make it.

> The people controlling the media won’t allow it. This is common knowledge.

This is just rank conspiracism. I know of no evidence to suggest that the media are somehow controlling events (?), laws (?), the "narrative" (?), simply to prevent nuclear reactors from being built. How? For what purpose?

And claiming "this is common knowledge"? Maybe that was just another joke, because normally when one says a conspiracy theory is true, one also claims that this is secret information that has to be carefully mined out of various data sources, because if everyone knows something is happening it's usually not a very good conspiracy.

Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by zackees on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:26AM (#31448757)
> simply to prevent nuclear reactors from being built. How? For what purpose?

If a country has sufficient nuclear energy then they are immune from international energy politics.

Two, I see that the oligarch class is using global warming alarmism as the driving narrative to move everyone to a carbon credit system, where payouts go to an unaccountable transnational elite.

Ironically, I believe that once the incentive structure is in place, there will be institutional force to keep you buying carbon (offsets) credits… forever.

Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by tintedfireglass on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:46PM (#31430090)
The Earth will keep spinning round no matter what. It is ourselves who we harm
Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by ipaddr on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:07PM (#31430212)
We see animals and people living with 15 degrees spread now. That won't change.. people and animals would exist at 25 degrees. Not as many and not in all places.. but we can be sure humans will survive somewhere aided by technology.