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Offline Granny

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Re: The End of the World Thread
« Reply #30 on: May 06, 2019, 06:33:42 pm »
Same is true of you. No one has any idea what the future will bring. We can only make try to make bets that are most likely to leave us in a reasonable situation. That said, we do have a pretty good handle on the energy tech that we have today and the cost and timescales required to switch to something else. So we can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that mitigation is doomed strategy. It won't work unless there is some break through tech appears (which we don't have now). To make matters worse, if you assume that the worst case scenarios are remotely plausible then mitigation becomes even less viable because we simply do not have the time. Adaptation is only viable option on the table. The only difference is whether it takes 15 years and trillions wasted before people accept this or if we can avoid the wasted resources and focus on what we will end up doing anyways.

It isn't either/or.
It's how much and where and when.
We already have the technologies. It's a question of scaling them up, and scaling fossil fuels down.
In case you haven't noticed, the price of fossil fuels is way down because the demand is shifting to renewables.
I have great faith in young business and industry leaders to see the writing on the wall and shift investments and efforts to industries that will be profitable - are profitable now and will be in the long term in helping us mitigate and adapt to climate change effects.

If we've still got all our eggs in the fossil fuel basket, we might want to rethink that energy strategy. 
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