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> Either you are insanely optimistic (to a point where it is actually ridiculous), or you lack information.

Or, option #3, you've been on a diet consisting almost exclusively of negative news and have adopted a doomer mindset as a result.

The world is actively combating and will fix climate change.




> The world is actively combating and will fix climate change.

At this point, that's faith :-).

Look at the numbers: CO2 emissions are increasing every year. Climate change is happening faster than the models predicted. Biodiversity is dropping, we are living a mass extinction right now, it is an observed fact and not a prediction. Fossil fuels are not unlimited, we passed the peak of conventional oil production in 2008, the general peak is expected soon, same for LNG. We don't have any sustainable energy that can remotely replace fossil fuels.

The one thing that is pretty clear is that we must consume less. But we are not doing that, instead we are consuming more every year. Hiding behind some sort of "others will fix it, I have faith" Silicon Valley religion, or something.




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