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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by dmm on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:47PM (#36910514)
> reduce economic activity.

Even if we stopped all carbon emissions today the earth would continue to warm for centuries. Mitigating these effects is going to take carbon capture(aka unburning oil) and geoengineering on an immense scale which won't be possible without economic growth. There's no going back.

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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by gisely on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:31PM (#36911164)
Not according to climate scientists. As explained here, mostly believe the warming stop shortly after emissions do:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-st...

More importantly, the sooner we can stop carbon emissions the less severe warming and ecosystem harm we'll experience. Carbon capture may help a bit if we are able to massively scale it up, but there really is not substitute for ending emissions.

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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by dmm on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:10PM (#36911757)
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look at it.
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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by femiagbabiaka on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:24PM (#36911081)
False dichotomy either way -- in reality we will do nothing until the pain becomes unbearable.
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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by dmm on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:01PM (#36911600)
Reducing economic activity seems incompatible with significant carbon capture.
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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by sumek83 on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:44AM (#37088068)
we have a choice to reduce economic activity in the controlled or uncontrolled way. sadly it seems we have to have tons of unrepairable electronics replaced every year and downfall of the civilization or it's "communism" aka ultimate evil
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Re:How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with ... by cudgy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:26AM (#36920632)
It’s also possible that our attempts to mitigate the natural effects could cause unknown consequences that backfire on us.
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