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Solar, nuclear, fusion, NNs, batteries and so on does not mitigate climate change. This all is great tech but all it does is slows down climate change which will happen with the same severity, but a few decades, or centuries later (the same levels of change, with and without green tech). The only ways to mitigate climate change are either to lower temperatures or to remove greenhouse gas which works for increasing temperatures. nothing else. And humans are not doing anything which matters in this area.

I see that people somehow got in their heads that climate change is a fixed duration process, say a hundred years, and then it stops (or they don't think about it). So if we go all solar we will delay the increase, get lower temperatures by year 2100 and then we win, yay! Almost nobody it speaking out loud that climate change will simply continue even if we go all solar, remove all plastics, invent working fusion generation, switch to all EVs etc. And it will continue to the same end level as if we did nothing at all.




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