• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    contrary to climate change we actually took that one seriously.

    we humans are very much able to solve all of our (human made) problems perfectly well, no matter how bad things are looking.

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      2 months ago

      Eh. The solution to the ozone layer was to replace refrigerant A with refrigerant B. A 1:1 swap that required very little effort from anybody.

      Getting off fossil fuels more or less mandates an entire global paradigm shift in how we do basically everything. The entire global economy of the past 200 years has been built off an unsustainable energy source.

      Sure, we can replace gas with batteries, but every step of the way is going to require small changes in how people do things, and they’re going to be very resistant to that.