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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by Paul-Craft on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:56PM (#36937320)
> Shelter, climate control, transportation, food

Yes, those seem like some good things to work on reducing the impact of.

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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by megaman821 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:00PM (#36937363)
Reducing the impact of those things by making people poorer is very different than reducing the impact by innovation. Degrowth is never going to fly.
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by Paul-Craft on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:02PM (#36937383)
Give me a better alternative that avoids 2 degrees of warming, then. Burden of proof is on you at this point. "Innovation" had 50 years to work, and did nothing to get us out of this.
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by throwawa14223 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:16PM (#36937476)
That's not how burden of proof works.
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by Paul-Craft on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:18PM (#36937498)
It is, unless you think the last 50 years somehow didn't happen. We knew exactly what would happen then, and did nothing. Innovation, my ass.
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Re:Greed and Excess Drive the Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t ... by jacquesm on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:19AM (#36940295)
Innovation so far is what made things worse, not better.
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