Namely, do you think it has a future in the wave of next gen clean energy sources? If you support it, do you think it will always be viable or that it should only be a temporary measure to get us off fossil fuels while our renewable infrastructure grows?
Here’s what’s currently happening:
We’re currently seeing a global ecosystem collapse:
World’s oceans are also acidifying to a similar rate as the Permian extinction (but again in 100 years instead of 20k-60k), with an anoxic event locked in after 1,000ppm or 360 gigatons, which we will reach by 2100 at the latest. So that’s whatever’s left wiped out.
And here’s what’s currently happening with food production. Two different groups of 200+ scientists and academics, separately from each other, each warned of near-term global collapse:
Examples of record-breaking crop failures currently happening:
Scientific studies projecting future crop failures:
News articles about projected crop failures:
UN says passing 2C will have a ‘very high projected risk’ of global food supply instabilities
UN says passing 2C would cause ‘multi-breadbasket failure’
UN says passing 2C would cause 60% of global wheat to be subjected to ‘Severe Water Scarcity (SVS)’ drought events
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Can you be more specific about what you’re calling sensationalism here?
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There are reasonable solutions, even if we can’t have a “perfect” solution.
But what specifically are you saying is sensational in the material I linked. We have deep systemic problems, our biosphere is collapsing, and we don’t have reasonable solutions right now. These are all just facts.
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Some of it is research, but a lot of it is documented events that are currently happening. Meanwhile, the research provides us with the best knowledge of what we can expect going forward. To our best knowledge we’re expecting drastic climate change within a decade.
Whether we can do anything about that or how we might do it is a separate discussion. Currently, there is no plan to deal with this in a meaningful way. Fusion reactors don’t exist right now, and there’s no evidence to suggest we’ll have fusion reactors within the time frame we need. Carbon capture is not sufficient, and we’re not expecting any major jumps in solar efficiency either. Technology isn’t magically going to solve this problem in the next decade.
The reality of the situation is that we need to abandon growth and consumerism, and that simply can’t happen in a world of capitalism. You can call it doom and gloom, but that’s the reality we’re in. Sticking your head in the sand isn’t going to change anything.
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how do you figure?