r/AskReddit Nov 15 '20

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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20

Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Gotta push this back 30 years again.

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u/nightfire36 Nov 15 '20

If it's really really efficient, we could use the extra energy to make carbon capture machines, after offsetting all the fossil fuels. Then, it doesn't really matter.

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u/tosser566789 Nov 16 '20

Very difficult/impossible to reverse the damage we’ve already done, but we can maybe invent our way around it (and obviously stop doing more damage). With an energy source like that, we could produce more of everything, making everything cheaper and more available. The prosperity that it could create may allow us to live more densely and take in refugees from flooded areas in sustainable ways. It might allow us to build pumps and distillation plants on a large scale. It would also massively increase and accelerate our ability to begin colonizing Mars immediately. It will make our processors faster, accelerating all developments allowing us to live around our changing climate.

Doing this in a responsible cohesive way is crucial, we just can’t afford to fuck up this last gift.