• AA5B@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    As far as energy production goes, we already have the technology: solar, wind, nuclear. We also already have the technology for cars and personAl transportation. Above all we have transit. If we can get our shit together with things we already know, we’d be in better shape. If we would have done it as little as ten years ago, we could have stayed within the Montreal targets for global warming.

    Now it’s no longer enough. We need to fix harder areas as well: aviation, shipping, grid storage, steel and cement, etc, and we need it asap … how is there still not any urgency?

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 days ago

      You need technology cheaper than fossil fuels. Some of fossil fuels’ downsides are upsides for some people (political control), which necessitates the difference in cost by a big enough margin to counter those invisible benefits. A revolution.

      There’s no urgency, I think, because Earth’s population is going to start shrinking. The emissions are going to slow down for that reason.

      Countries that won’t have some quality, not quantity, approaches to their economies by then are going to fall hard.

      I guess that’s how EU is going to make the world owned by Europeans again.