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Until someone finds a way to combat climate change that also grows the GDP and makes all of the lines go up then what's the point of taking any action? Profit is the only thing that matters above the lives of any human or animal. If it's not profitable to fight climate change how can that be a good decision? Lol imagine making a decision that's not profitable. Imagine doing something that doesn't make the line go up! This is why nobody takes scientists and liberals and leftists seriously. Do you even realize the profit impact of what you're suggesting? GDP must only go up. UP UP UP
It seems like our only hope is a breakthrough in carbon capture.
Carbon capture is a fools errand.
It takes just as much energy to get the carbon out of the air as it did to put it there in the first place. You can’t fight thermodynamics.
So unless we discover cheap, plentiful fusion in the next few years, or dedicate half a continent to solar and wind farms, we aren’t getting back any more carbon than we burn already.
Nuclear and solar would like a word. My entire life we've been told we can't have nuclear because NIMBY and "decade to build."
We'd be swimming in available power without fossil fuel level carbon release if we had just done it.
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You expect me to pay for that with MY taxes when I can already barely afford anything because capitalist business owners are sucking the wealth generated by my productivity into their own bank accounts?
Facetiousness aside you can maybe tell I have some other ideas about economic changes which might help :)
Yeah but any economic changes you suggest will be called the new world order and they'll never go through
Like planting trees? And stopping chopping down the rainforests?
100% this. Corporate incentives need to change. Money is the only primary corporate incentive right now, everything else is secondary and works towards that primary goal. Without a change that puts that goal in check, it will increasingly bring ruin on a global scale.
Devalue money.