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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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Whether or not we're past the 1.5C point doesn't really change the prescription.
We need to invest in improving energy infrastructure, immediately. We need to decentralize the automobiles in urban life, immediately. We need to stop pulling fossil fuels out of the earth, immediately. We need to find ways to reduce pointless consumption. We need to continue letting solar do its thing unimpeded by protectionist fossil fuel policy, significantly scale up wind investment, and continue to research other carbon-free fuels to see if they will eventually prove viable (EGH, for example).
The technology to seriously slow, maybe halt, and possibly even reverse the damage already exists, with plenty more actually-promising projects in the pipelines. But the economics may not and the politics definitely do not. Whether we're at 0.9, 1.4, or 2.7C doesn't really change that prospectus, in my opinion.
Maybe the politics will exist after Florida gets a couple Katrina-like events.